The other night I was listening - as I do every weeknight - to Philip Adams' Late Night Live when his guest Matthew Campbell, co-author of "Dead in the Water: Murder and Fraud in the World’s Most Secretive Industry", also mentioned Rose George's book "Ninety Percent of Everything" - click here - which is about shipping.
I've always been fascinated by ships and professionally involved in the formation of the Pacific Forum Line in Western Samoa, as a consultant to the Penang Port Commission, and in the setting-up of the accounting systems for Ok Tedi's tug-and-barge operations in Papua New Guinea.
Searching www.archive.org for "Ninety Percent of Everything" (published in the U.K. under the title "Deep Sea and Foreign Going"), I discovered that the author Rose George also wrote "The Big Necessity - The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters". It's quite a jump from shipping to shitting, if you ask me, but I'm going to read it as soon I've read "Deep Sea and Foreign Going" which I've ordered on ebay.
