When 2. 8,8. 00 Bath Toys Are Lost At Sea : NPRMoby- Duck. By Donovan Hohn. Hardcover, 4. Viking Adult. List Price: $2. At the outset, I felt no need to acquaint myself with the six degrees of freedom. I'd never heard of the Great North Pacific Garbage Patch. I liked my job and loved my wife and was inclined to agree with Emerson that travel is a fool's paradise. I just wanted to learn what had really hap.

I loved the part about con. I especially loved the part about the rubber duckies crossing the Arctic, going cheerfully where explorers had gone boldly and disastrously before. At the outset, I had no intention of doing what I eventually did: quit my job, kiss my wife farewell, and ramble about the Northern Hemi. I certainly never expected to join the crew of a fifty- one- foot catamaran captained by a charismatic environmentalist, the Ahab of plastic hunters, who had the charming habit of exterminating the fruit flies clouding around his stash of or. Or to cross the Graveyard of the Pacific on a container ship at the height of the win. Or to ride a high- speed ferry through the smoggy, in. Having never taken organic chemistry, I didn't know and therefore didn't care that pelagic plastic has the peculiar propensity to adsorb hy.

DDT) and polychlorinated biphenyls (a. Nor did I know or care that such toxins are surprisingly abundant at the ocean's surface, or that they bioaccumulate as they move up the food chain. Honestly, I didn't know what . Now, years later, I know: the six degrees of freedom — delicious phrase! Now, not only can I name and define them, I've experi. One night, sleep- deprived and nearly broken, in thirty- five- knot winds and twelve- foot seas, I would overindulge all six — rolling, pitching, yawing, heaving, swaying, and surging like a drunken libertine — and, after buckling myself into an emergency har. And all this I would do, I hoped, without leaving my desk, so that I could be sure to be present at the birth of my first child.

My French granny says it is more hygienic to poo in a big hole in the garden, like she did when she was growing up, than it is to go inside. Is this true? A rapid succession of small earthquakes — three measuring above magnitude 4.0 — at the Salton Sea has experts on alert. Crepusculo Amanecer Parte 2 Online Latino Hd Descargar Musica. And the Sea Will Tell is a true crime book by Vincent Bugliosi and Bruce Henderson. The nonfiction book recounts a double murder on Palmyra Atoll; the subsequent.

But questions, I've learned since, can be like ocean currents. Wade in a little too far and they can carry you away. Follow one line of inquiry and it will lead you to another, and another. Spot a yellow duck dropped atop the seaweed at the tide line, ask yourself where it came from, and the next thing you know you're way out at sea, no land in sight, dog- paddling around in mysteries four miles deep. You're wondering when and why yellow ducks became icons of childhood. You want to know what it's like inside the toy factories of Guangdong. You're marveling at the scale of humanity's impact on this terraqueous globe and at the oce.

You're giving the plight of the Laysan albatross many moments of thought. The next thing you know, it's the middle of the night and you're on the outer decks of a post- Panamax freighter due south of the Aleutian island where, in 1. Vitus Bering perished from scurvy and hunger. The winds are gale force. The water is deep and black, and so is the sky. It's snowing. The decks are slick.

Your ears ache, your fin. Solitary, nocturnal circumambulations of the outer decks by supernumerary passengers are strictly forbidden, for good reason. Fall overboard and no one would miss you. You'd inhale the ocean and go down, alone. Nevertheless, there you are, not a goner yet, gazing up at the shipping containers stacked six- high overhead, and from them cataracts of snowmelt and rain are spattering on your head. There you are, listening to the stacked containers strain against their lashings, creaking and groaning and cataracting with every roll, and with every roll you are wondering what in the name of Neptune it would take to make stacks of steel — or for that matter aluminum- containers fall.

Or you're learning how to tie a bowline knot and say thank you in both Inuktitut and Cantonese. Or you're spending three days and nights in a shabby hotel room in Pusan, South Korea, waiting for your ship to come in, and you're won. Probably not Scotch.

And you're remember. E., or learned of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, or met the Ahab of plastic hunters, or the heartsick conservationist or the foulmouthed beachcomber or the blind oceanographer, any of them. You're wishing you'd never given Big Poppa the chance to write about Luck Duck, because if you hadn't you'd never have heard the fable of the rubber ducks lost at sea. You'd still be teaching Moby- Dick to American teenagers. But that's the thing about strong currents: there's no swimming against them. The next thing you know years have passed, and you're still adrift, still waiting to see where the questions take you.

At least that's what happens if you're a nearsighted, school- teaching, would- be archaeologist of the ordinary, with an indulgent, long- suffering wife and a juvenile imagina. Copyright 2. 01. 1 by Donovan Hohn.

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