He details the journey — via plane, foot and container ship — in Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists and Fools ...

But his book is so “alive with intellectual curiosity,” that hardly matters. Believe it or not, “what Melville did for whaling, Hohn has done for plastic bath toys lost at sea.” ...