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- 9781600940255
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
ISBN-10
1600940250
ISBN-13
9781600940255
eBay Product ID (ePID)
57207129
Product Key Features
Book Title
Don't Tell Mom I Work on the Rigs : She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Personal Memoirs, Essays & Travelogues, Petroleum
Publication Year
2007
Genre
Travel, Technology & Engineering, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Perfect
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
7.7 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2006-101776
Reviews
ÝCarter's¨ struck literary black gold with these stories, which are both horrifying and hilarious., What you have here is that rare situation of somebody who not only has a story to tell but the ability to tell it. Carter's anecdotes are told with great good humor and perfect timing.
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
622/.3381092 B
Synopsis
A rollicking, crazed, sometimes terrifying, usually bloody, and incredibly funny ride through one man's adventures in the oil trade Since age 18, Paul Carter has worked on oil rigs in locations as far flung as the Middle East, Columbia, the North Sea, Borneo, Tunisia, Sumatra, Vietnam, Nigeria, Russia, and many others--and he's survived (so far ) to tell stories from the edge of civilization (places, as it happens, upon which most of our lives rely). Carter has been shot at, hijacked and held hostage, almost died of dysentery in Asia and toothache in Russia, watched a Texan lose his mind in the jungles of Asia, lost a lot of money backing a scorpion against a mouse in a fight to the death, and served cocktails by an orangutan on an ocean freighter. Taking postings in some of the world's wildest and most remote regions - not to mention some of the roughest rigs on the planet--Carter has worked and gotten into trouble with some of the maddest, baddest and strangest people you could ever hope not to meet., A rollicking, crazed, sometimes terrifying, usually bloody, and incredibly funny ride through one man's adventures in the oil trade Since age 18, Paul Carter has worked on oil rigs in locations as far flung as the Middle East, Columbia, the North Sea, Borneo, Tunisia, Sumatra, Vietnam, Nigeria, Russia, and many others -- and he's survived (so far!) to tell stories from the edge of civilization (places, as it happens, upon which most of our lives rely). Carter has been shot at, hijacked and held hostage, almost died of dysentery in Asia and toothache in Russia, watched a Texan lose his mind in the jungles of Asia, lost a lot of money backing a scorpion against a mouse in a fight to the death, and served cocktails by an orangutan on an ocean freighter. Taking postings in some of the world's wildest and most remote regions - not to mention some of the roughest rigs on the planet--Carter has worked and gotten into trouble with some of the maddest, baddest and strangest people you could ever hope not to meet., Since age 18, Paul Carter has worked on oil rigs in locations as far flung as the Middle East, Columbia, the North Sea, Borneo, Tunisia, Sumatra, Vietnam, Nigeria, Russia, and many others -- and he's survived (so far!) to tell stories from the edge of civilization (places, as it happens, upon which most of our lives rely). Carter has been shot at, hijacked and held hostage, almost died of dysentery in Asia and toothache in Russia, watched a Texan lose his mind in the jungles of Asia, lost a lot of money backing a scorpion against a mouse in a fight to the death, and served cocktails by an orangutan on an ocean freighter. Taking postings in some of the world's wildest and most remote regions -- not to mention some of the roughest rigs on the planet -- Carter has worked and gotten into trouble with some of the maddest, baddest and strangest people you could ever hope not to meet., - An unprecedented view of the oil industry from the inside-out: Paul Carter has worked on oil rigs since he was eighteen, in locations as far flung as the North Sea, the Middle East, Borneo, Tunisia, Sumatra, Vietnam, Columbia, Nigeria, Russia, and many others--and he's survived (so far!) to tell rollicking stories from the edge of civilization (places, as it happens, upon which most of our lives rely). - An unbelievable cast of characters and catastrophes (in other words, a movie just waiting to happen): Carter, who continues to work on oil rigs even as he has now become a successful writer, has been shot at, hijacked, and held hostage; almost died of dysentery in Asia and toothache in Russia; watched a Texan lose his mind in the jungles of Asia; and been served cocktails by an orangutan on an ocean freighter. Taking postings in some of the world's wildest and remotest regions-not to mention some of the roughest rigs on the planet--Carter has worked and gotten into trouble with some of the maddest, baddest, and strangest people you could ever hope not to meet.
LC Classification Number
HD8039.P4C37 2007
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