Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,000 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. Publisher: Viking

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In this dazzling science travelogue, Hohn journeys from beaches to factories to the northern seas to determine what happened to 28,000 Chinese-manufactured plastic animals after they fell off a container ship en route to Seattle.

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9780670022199

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