Ninety Percent of Everything

Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, And Food on Your Plate (UK: Deep Sea and Foreign Going (Portobello, 2013, ISBN 9781846272998^[1]) is a book by Rose George about the international shipping industry. In 2013 the 287 page book was published in New York City by Metropolitan Books, an imprint of Henry Holt and Company.^[2][3][4]

Ninety Percent of Everything

Front cover of this book
Author	Rose George
Language	English
Publisher	Metropolitan Books (New York City)
Publication date	2013
Pages	287 (first edition)
ISBN	978-0805092639
OCLC	811597783

Critical reception

Michael Causey, writing for the Washington Independent Review of Books, found the book to be an effective way to communicate the logistics of shipping, but found the final quarter of the book to be flawed.^[4] Dwight Garner, writing for The New York Times, found the book to be "consistently absorbing".^[2]

References

1. "Ninety Percent of Everything". Rose George. Retrieved 19 July 2023.
2. Garner, Dwight (October 16, 2013). "Life on Ships That Make World Go Round: 'Ninety Percent of Everything,' by Rose George". The New York Times. Retrieved July 17, 2015.
3. Gross, Terry (August 14, 2013). "Shipping: The 'Invisible Industry' That Clothes And Feeds You" (Podcast). Fresh Air. National Public Radio. Retrieved July 17, 2015.
4. Causey, Michael (August 13, 2013). "Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping..." Washington Review of Books. Washington, DC. Retrieved July 17, 2015.

External links

• Official website
• Author's book and website.