Sull'Autore
Donovan Hohn, a former editor at GQ and Harper's Magazine, is the author of Moby-Duck and the recipient of an NEA Fellowship, a Knight-Wallace Fellowship, and a Whiting Writer's Award. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Opere di Donovan Hohn
Opere correlate
Lapham's Quarterly - Lines of Work: Volume IV, Number 2, Spring 2011 (2011) — Collaboratore — 29 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Hohn, Donovan
- Data di nascita
- 1972-05-29
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- San Francisco, California, USA
New York, USA
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA - Attività lavorative
- teacher
author
editor - Organizzazioni
- Wayne State University
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Whiting Writers' Award
National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship
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Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost… di Donovan Hohn
Very interesting through most of the book, until it bogged down in th Artic Circle. Published 10 years ago, most of what was being noted is still true - there are garbage patches in the oceans, there is global warming and the ocean currents are in general stable, but we're still learning about them.
A mad sort of book written after a American teacher discovers that a container spill at sea deposits 28,800 plastic bath toys at sea.
This book documents his trail of the bath toys, and takes him to the factory that made them, a trip across the Pacific on a container ship and across the northwest passage in search of them.
This book documents his trail of the bath toys, and takes him to the factory that made them, a trip across the Pacific on a container ship and across the northwest passage in search of them.
Fascinating subject matter, but elaborately overwritten. The author could not resist a single artistic flourish, whether it helped tell the story or not. It meandered all over so many subjects that it became a bore.
3.75 stars for this one!
It's a bit too long and wordy (75 pages less would be about right). But meandering as it does through culture, toymaking, weather-vs-climate, polar ice, environmentalism, ocean currents, transoceanic shipping and childrens toys, this is a fascinating look at one of those great universal stories: 28800 plastic bath toys are lost at sea during shipping between China and Seattle, and then wash up on beaches for the next couple of decades.
It's a nicely explored book, well researched and well told. I learned a lot more than I thought I would, though there were also sections when I could loosely skim 15 or 20 pages and not care about what I missed.
Hohn is at his best when describing people and objects; he's really witty and fun. This makes the meandering worthwhile.… (altro)
It's a bit too long and wordy (75 pages less would be about right). But meandering as it does through culture, toymaking, weather-vs-climate, polar ice, environmentalism, ocean currents, transoceanic shipping and childrens toys, this is a fascinating look at one of those great universal stories: 28800 plastic bath toys are lost at sea during shipping between China and Seattle, and then wash up on beaches for the next couple of decades.
It's a nicely explored book, well researched and well told. I learned a lot more than I thought I would, though there were also sections when I could loosely skim 15 or 20 pages and not care about what I missed.
Hohn is at his best when describing people and objects; he's really witty and fun. This makes the meandering worthwhile.… (altro)
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- Opere
- 2
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 743
- Popolarità
- #34,185
- Voto
- 3.4
- Recensioni
- 31
- ISBN
- 18
- Lingue
- 1
