I especially loved the part about the rubber duckies crossing the Arctic, going cheerfully where explorers had gone boldly and disastrously before.Īt the outset, I had no intention of doing what I eventually did: quit my job, kiss my wife farewell, and ramble about the Northern Hemi¬sphere aboard all manner of watercraft. I loved the part about con¬tainers falling off a ship, the part about the oceanographers tracking the castaways with the help of far-flung beachcombers. I just wanted to learn what had really hap¬pened, where the toys had drifted and why. I liked my job and loved my wife and was inclined to agree with Emerson that travel is a fool’s paradise.
I’d never heard of the Great North Pacific Garbage Patch. He also delved into research about the history of plastics and the chemistry of how it breaks down in the ocean.ĭonovan Hohn details his quest in his new book, " Moby-Duck: The True Story of the 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, including the Author Who Went In Search Of Them."Īt the outset, I felt no need to acquaint myself with the six degrees of freedom. His journey took him to a beach in Alaska that was a landing point for tons of garbage, aboard a container ship and into a toy factory in China. When high school teacher Donovan Hohn first heard about the thousands of rubber ducks that fell off a container ship in the middle of the Pacific Ocean in 1992, he wanted to find out what had happened to them. Facebook Email This article is more than 12 years old.
0 kommentar(er)
