There are some books which I know, as soon as I heard of them, I MUST Have. And a few where I think, "I MUST interview the author of that book." Such is the case here. I have long been a fan of rubber ...

Beachcombing is a romantic activity where we discover rugged planks tossed by wind and wave, silvered tree stumps worn smooth by shingle and fragments of sand-frosted glass. But a stroll along even ...

Every year, anything between 2,000 and 10,000 containers tumble off ships into the sea. They don't make news. But when the containers in question were full of rubber ducks, and when those ducks are ...

Remember that cute little ditty “Sesame Street’s” burnt umber Ernie bee-bops to in the bathtub with his best buddy, bright yellow rubber ducky? The childhood ritual of filling a basin of warm water ...

Moby-Duck By Donovan Hohn. Viking, New York, 2011. 416 pages. $27.95. A rubber duckie, unconfined by the porcelain walls of a tub, has quite a taste for travel. In Donovan Hohn’s feat of research and ...

The title is not just a bad pun. The author, a high-school lit teacher, first encountered Moby-Duck in a paper turned in by one of his students. It seems 28,800 plastic bath toys — including thousands ...

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 ...

Donovan Hohn's narrative about his monomaniacal quest for the elusive yellow duck(s) bobbing somewhere upon the intractable oceans is more than a little Melvillian. The plastic (not rubber) duckies ...

Whimsical curiosity begets a quixotic odyssey and troubling revelations about plastics polluting the seas in former high school teacher and journalist Hohn's charming account of what he learned ...

For Donovan Hohn, the true tale of 7,200 shipwrecked rubber ducks was “a toy story too important not to follow,” said Janet Maslin in The New York Times. Fifteen years after the Crayola-yellow bath ...