''Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, And Food on Your Plate'' is a book by Rose George about the international

shipping industry Maritime transport (or ocean transport) and hydraulic effluvial transport, or more generally waterborne transport, is the transport of people ( passengers) or goods (cargo) via waterways. Freight transport by sea has been widely used thro ...

. In 2013 the 287 page book was published in

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, an imprint of Henry Holt and Company.

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. Dwight Garner, writing for ''

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'', found the book to be "consistently absorbing".

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Author's book and website
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