Moby-duck
by Donovan Hohn · first published 2011
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This is the remarkable story of how 28,904 bath toys spilled into the Pacific and have been washing up along beaches ever since. Setting out on a series of journeys to track the renegade rubber ducks, this is an adventure into the heart of the sea through science, myth, the global economy and some of the worst weather imaginable.
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Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them[1] by Donovan Hohn is a great book…
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on “The Cornish beaches where Lego keeps washing up” ↗> teenagers won’t appreciate I’m middle-aged, read a lot, but Moby Duck is just about chasing a whale to me. I just don’t recognise the metaphors and deeper meanings, unless somebody with a word rotator mind explains it (or I read the Cliff’s notes - which I didn’t get either).
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