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Reshaping the business of shipping was left to an outsider with no maritime experience whatsoever, a self-made trucking magnate named Malcom Purcell McLean.
Marc Levinson • The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger - Second Edition with a new chapter by the author
Molly Allen, fearless as ever.
Anthony Capella • The Various Flavours Of Coffee
Bimini, part of the Bahamas, is just fifty miles east of Miami. In the nineteenth century, it was a way station for fugitives from the powerful, a home for pirates, a wrecking spot. Later it was known for alcohol smuggling and as the playground of that quintessential figure of American masculinist national literature: Ernest Hemingway. In fact, in
... See moreImani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
Chatterton smiled and allowed another diver to stay with Kohl for a while. He then moved to the back of the Seeker to help Yurga climb aboard. Still about two hundred feet from the stern of the boat, Yurga waved to Chatterton. Chatterton began to wave back, but his arm froze. Stalking Yurga from behind was an eighteen-foot monster. “Shark!” Chatter
... See moreRobert Kurson • Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II
The captain, who watched her with his glass, said that she was armed, and full of men, and showed no colors.
Richard Henry Dana • Two Years Before the Mast
persistence and perseverance were fundamental parts of her nature. She would often say, “Whenever someone says you can’t do something, make it your job to prove them wrong.”
Gerry Valentine • The Thriving Mindset: Tools for Empowerment in a Disruptive World
“tough and competent.”
Jeffrey Kluger • Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon
meet him off Gravesend with a barge