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Moby-Duck (2011) (edit title/settings)

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

by Donovan Hohn (Author) (edit contributors)

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A revelatory tale of science, adventure, and modern myth. When the writer Donovan Hohn heard of the mysterious loss of thousands of bath toys at sea, he figured he would interview a few oceanographers, talk to a few beachcombers, and read up on Arctic science and geography. But questions... read more

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“It wasn't that I wanted, like Cook and Amundsen and Vancouver and Bering and all those other dead explorers, to turn terra incognita into terra cognita, the world into a map. Quite the opposite. I wanted to turn a map into a world.”
Donovan Hohn
“Studies have shown that the primary colors, smiling faces, and cute animals in which Carle's book abounds - and of which the yellow rubber duck may be the consummate embodiment - have an almost narcotic power to induce feelings of happiness in the human brain.”
Donovan Hohn (author)
“What misanthrope, what damp, drizzly November of a sourpuss, upon beholding a rubber duck afloat, does not feel a Crayola ray of sunshine brightening his gloomy heart?”
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“I was on a possibly quixotic quest to get my hands on a hollow plastic duck.”
Donovan Hohn (author)

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Sitka, Alaska
Gore Point: At the southernmost tip of the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska, just south of Anchorage.
South Point: The southernmost point of the Big Island of Hawaii and of the 50 United States.
Pearl River Delta: China's most productive region - some sources refer to it as "the workshop of the world." Includes the town of Dongguan, with the Po Sing plastics factory, the alleged factory that produced Flotees.

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At the outset, I felt no need to acquaint myself with the six degrees of freedom.

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Donovan Hohn (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Viking Adult
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Publication Date: 2011
ISBN: 0670022195
Page Count: 416

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Dewey: 551.462

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Reading Level: Adults

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Books › Science › Nature & Ecology › Oceans & Seas › Oceanography
Books › Travel › Specialty Travel › Adventure
Books › Science › Earth Sciences › Geography

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