![]() ![]() The Kent Non-Fiction Book Group: Tuesday July 26 at NoonĪll book discussion groups meet in the “Yellow Building”Ģ07 Calvert Street, Chestertown, MD, and are free and open to everyone. Rubber ducks as harmless, ubiquitous symbols of childhood? Not anymore, not by a long shot. ![]() The resulting book is a thoroughly engaging environmental/travel title that crosses partisan divides with its solid research and apolitical nature. By turns thoughtful, bemused, or shocked, Hohn finds the story growing beyond his wildest visions as he learns about the science of ocean currents and drift and the lure of cheap plastic in a consumer culture that has dangerously lost its way. Hohn’s inquiry leads him to 10 Little Rubber Ducks (2005), children’s author Eric Carle’s idealized board-book version, and also to the plastic-strewn beaches of an Alaskan island, a Hong Kong toy fair, and the Sesame Street origins of the rubber duck’s popularity. His quest is to determine what happened to a load of 28,800 Chinese manufactured plastic animals in a container that fell off a ship en route to Seattle in 1992. ![]() ![]() Like Bill Bryson on hard science, or John McPhee with attitude, journalist Hohn travels from beaches to factories to the northern seas in pursuit of a treasure that mystifies as much as it provokes. Hohns accidental odyssey pulls him into the secretive arena of shipping conglomerates, the daring work of Arctic researchers, the lunatic risks of maverick sailors, and the shadowy world of Chinese toy factories. ![]()
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