Moby-duck
an accidental odyssey : the true story of 28,800 bath toys lost at sea and of the beachcombers, ocea…
By Donovan Hohn
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Book Description
A Whiting Writers Award-winning journalist recounts his investigation at the side of unexpected companions into the mysterious loss of thousands of bath toys in ...
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guardian.co.uk published on Sun, 1 Apr 2012
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Epic toy story
In January 1992 a container filled with 7,200 yellow ducks and the same number each of blue turtles, red beavers and green frogs, blow-moulded out of plastic for American children at bathtime, broke loose in a storm on the deck of a container ship on ... (read full critics)
spectator published on Fri, 2 Mar 2012
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Book Details
- English Books
- Others 416 Pages
- ISBN-10: 110147596X
- ISBN-13: 9781101475966
- Publisher: Viking Pr
- Pub date: Mar 03, 2011
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Moby-Duck by Donovan Hohn
Every year, anything between 2,000 and 10,000 containers tumble off ships into the sea. They don't make news. But when the containers in question were full of rubber ducks, and when those ducks are still, endlessly and unsinkably, wandering the water ... (read full critics)