Learned since, can be like ocean currents," Hohn writes poetically. Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them (Viking, 370 pages, $27.95), goes far beyond a simple investigation into these questions. Set out to learn what the toys might have encountered on the high seasĪnd whether they actually made it to the Atlantic, but the resultingīook, Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at SeaĪnd of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Night-to put his investigative skills to work in a five-year wild duckĬhase, away from his wife and newborn son. It also sent Hohn-schoolteacher by day, investigative journalist by The image of inanimate yellow ducks bobbing cheerfully in the ocean inspired children's author Eric Carle ( The Very Hungry Caterpillar) to write 10 Little Rubber Ducks, and beachcombers in Newfoundland and England to search for weather-beaten bath toys that might have safely crossed the Arctic. Ship en route to the United States from China. Turtles-circumnavigating the globe after tumbling off of a container Of thousands of plastic bath toys-ducks, beavers, frogs and Night, when one of his students brought to his attention the existence Donovan Hohn was correcting high-school English papers one
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