If you're interested in more reading in this style, is recommend "Deep Sea and Foreign Going" by Rose George, an account of the modern container shipping indust

If you're interested in more reading in this style, is recommend "Deep Sea and Foreign Going" by Rose George, an account of the modern container shipping industry and the old world of shipping that it replaced, seen through the eyes of the writer as she sails on a container ship. After reading this article I actually had to check it wasn't by her - both of the authors have a similarly wonderful style of melancholy prose.