Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea & of the Beachcombers, Oceanograp Hers, Environmentalists & Fools Inclu

by Donovan Hohn

Book Overview

Selected by "The New York Times Book Review" as a Notable Book of the Year 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 can be like ocean currents: wade in too far, and they carry you away. Hohn's accidental...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670022195
• ISBN13: 9780670022199
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Viking
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Your enjoyment will depend greatly upon how well you can abide the author's voice

There is some information to be found here, but as with most nonfiction, how much you enjoy it is dependent on how well you get along with the author. I would check it out of the library and read it once for the informative bits, but alas, I did not need to own it. The author is not a scientist, nor a manufacturer, nor a sailor, nor in any of the professions relevant to the facts of the story; so he must needs be an interviewer and reporter, which is not his profession, either. He is a runaway English teacher who seems to be compelled to travel the world in a quest to avoid spending time with his small child. It frankly left a bad taste in my mouth that wasn't effaced by his reported qualms about constantly running off and leaving his wife to oversee their child's milestones alone.