In 1992, a cargo ship container tumbled into the North Pacific, dumping 28,800 toys into the ocean. What happened to those toys led writer Donovan... 'Moby-Duck': When 28,800 Bath Toys Are Lost At Sea ...

On Jan. 10, 1992, a container ship traveling south of the Aleutians, in the region once quaintly known as the Graveyard of the Pacific, en route from Hong Kong to Tacoma, Wash., took a steep roll and ...

Donovan Hohn, author of the best-selling book “Moby-Duck,” recipient of the Whiting Writer’s Award and features editor of GQ magazine, had not always planned on becoming a writer. “When I was 11 years ...

Donovan Hohn's enjoyably picaresque journey through the worlds of ecology and big business is the first release from new imprint Union Books. Union's mission statement is to release "unapologetically ...

While reading is usually a solitary act, the Reads Program is something like a communitywide book club. Reads Community Conversations are held at UCSB and public libraries to give readers an ...

Donovan Hohn's book about 28,800 rubber duckies lost at sea will be adapted by writer-director Drew Fellman, with Imax's Greg Foster overseeing. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief The project, which ...

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In 1992, crates containing 28,800 rubber duckies fell overboard a container ship as it sailed from Hong Kong across the Pacific. The ducks traveled the high seas and started popping up in places like ...

In “Moby-Duck,” Donovan Hohn, a former English teacher and the current features editor at GQ, goes in search of twenty-eight thousand bath toys that washed out of a cargo ship into the Pacific in 1992 ...

A new book about the travels of the moby duck has revealed the terrible extent and near immortality of plastic pollution Nearly 20 years ago in mid-Pacific, a container of "Friendly Floatees" washed ...

Kai Ryssdal: Billions of dollars worth of cargo goes back and forth across the oceans every day. It’s just the cheapest way to get something from Point A to Point B. But there are real costs to the ...