Plastiki: Across the Pacific on Plastic: An Adventure to Save Our Oceans

by David de Rothschild

Explorer, global green leader, and eco-TV host David de Rothschild recounts the extraordinary journey of the Plastiki , an innovative and mostly untested sixty-foot catamaran that floats on 12,500 reclaimed plastic bottles. It was a voyage that took de Rothschild and a five-person crew 10,000 miles from the U.S. to Australia, sailing through rarely traveled, dangerous waters, risking their lives to call attention to our fragile oceans. Their exploration...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1452100020
• ISBN13: 9781452100029
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.3" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary