In 1992, a container ship en route to the US from China got caught in a storm and spilled 28,800 plastic bath toys into the Pacific. Journalist Donovan Hohn decided to track down the renegade rubber ducks, resulting in this quirky odyssey through ecology, oceanography and literature. The New York Times called Moby-Duck:
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“Dazzling … [it] succeeds as harebrained adventure, as a cautionary environmental tale, as a deconstruction of consumer demand, and as a meditation on wilderness and imagination … Hohn seems to have it all: deep intelligence, a strikingly original voice, humility and a hunger to suss out everything a yellow duck may literally or metaphorically touch.”
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