![]() ![]() I haven't seen the book, but I imagine the reading would be enriched with photographs - there are some on the writers website. ![]() My only regret is buying the kindle version rather than the physical book. ![]() It is a book that will stay with me for a long time I think. ![]() What a fascinating journey the author has taken to uncover more of the story of the rubber ducks! I was horrified by the sheer scale of rubbish collected on the very rural beaches of Alaska and the descriptions of the garbage patch at sea are frankly shocking, as is the thought of degraded plastic particles potentially becoming part of our food chain. Moby-Duck makes him sound genuinely open-minded, inquisitive and eager to expand his own understanding of the freakish event on which he’d grown fixated. Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year A revelatory tale of science, adventure, and modern myth. And you’re remember¬ing the scene near the end of Moby-Dick when Starbuck, family man, first officer of the Pequod, tries in vain to convince mad Ahab to aban¬don his doomed hunt. The link to Moby Dick throughout is very clever, but I liked the references to Winnie the Pooh just as much!There is so much I liked about this book, I was quite sad to get to the end, although sometimes the science content was a bit tough going. The author was once a school teacher and I think this comes across, certainly in the fact that he is obviously well educated and also because of the literary references used throughout the book - I took this to be partly a nod to his previous career. This is a fascinating, well written book which combines true story, travel, science, a bit of biography and lots of literary references. ![]()
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