Moby-Duck
The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea & of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists & Fools Including the Author Who Went in Search of Them

Plastic Duckie, You’re the one. Well, one of 28,800 anyway. Donovan Hohn begins his tale with an accident at sea. A container ship, in the face of fifty-foot waves, rolls sufficiently to dump more than a few containers, those box-car sized giant legos that we use to transport stuff from here to ther......more

I could be flip, and just say that this book told me more about ducks than I really wanted to know. But to be fair, there's a lot of fairly dense scientific information about plastics pollution, global warming, and ocean currents. Hohn interviewed real scientists, and a few whose science is more que......more

Il 10 gennaio 1992, una nave portacontainer che viaggiava a sud delle Aleutine, partita da Hong Kong e diretta a Tacoma, nello stato di Washington, s’imbatté in una tremenda tempesta che le fece perdere gran parte del suo carico. L'incidente ha avuto ripercussioni quasi mitiche, perché tra la merce......more

Reading Moby Duck is an adventure worth taking, but not without its hazards. Like the journey of the lost bath toys, this book took me through channels more complex than I anticipated. I want to fault Hohn for taking sidetrips onto uncharted shores, and I want to accuse him of leaving the reader in......more