Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate

Incredibly interesting and informative insight into the shipping industry that carries 90% of everything traded around the world, a real eye-opener, and things we should all know! It includes the somewhat grim and still-dangerous lives of the multi-national seafarers that crew the container ships, the very patchy regulation (flags of convenience etc.), piracy, bad food, environmental impacts of shipping, as well as facts and figures about the industry, but all written in an easy-read and journalistic style. The author sees a lot at first hand, as a guest on a container ship from Europe to the Far East. Inevitably there are some things I'd have liked to have had discussed in more detail, and just occasionally I felt the treatment of some topics was a bit thin, or under-researched and anecdotal. But overall a great read.

Promises to cover a voyage from Port A to B; but doesn't. Goes off at tangents. Doesn't get to the heart of the issue.

I was expecting a book about the shipping industry, but got a selection of remotely connected essays about life on a container ship, Somali pirates, pollution of the ocean, surviving shipwrecks etc. There were chapters on Flags of Convenience and problems with the regulation of the industry, but the book was written in 2013 and, it seems, have not been updated. Like any non-fiction book, it has become, I feel, slightly dated. Or maybe it has not – but how do I know. I am not an expert and turned to this book to tell me more about the shipping industry. I feel that I know even less about shipping then before I started to read this. As Einstein said, "The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know." I will start eradicating my ignorance by reading more about whales.

Very interesting book,it offers you the oportunity to take a glimpse to shipping,a very important industry of today's society.Despite its importance though not much we know about it.This book is an attempt to do so.

A good description of the life aboard a container ship by a writer with a flair for observation. I first came across the book when it was serialised on BBC Radio Four as "Deep Sea and Foreign Going" and have thoroughly enjoyed both versions. Having been involved in the industry I can vouchsafe for much of what the author describes. Well done also to Maersk Line for allowing Rose George onboard one of their ships.

Great insight into the shipping industry. Well laid out and say to read

its the same as her other one...this is the US cover i think...so make sure you look inside before you buy!!

Engagingly well-written, and thoroughly researched, this book has more than opened my eyes to a significant part of our modern world I knew nothing about, it had made me want to tell everyone else. A must-read. Put it on your Christmas wish list!