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 ...

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 young man goes whaling, ends up the sole human survivor of a ship/white-whale collision. Call him Ishmael. Call his story "Moby-Dick." A young teacher learns about 28,800 plastic bathtub toys -- ...

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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Men have gone to sea in search of adventure since history began but few have searched for toy ducks and then written a book on the environment, the commercialization of childhood ...

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 ...

Somebody should be ashamed of themselves. Whoever it was, they forgot a basic tenet of kindergarten: If you make a mess, you clean it up. But there it is, trash all over the place. Paper bags, plastic ...

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 clever writing, we learn a lot about unfettered voyage, the ocean, the ...

Jeff Glor talks to Donovan Hohn about "Moby Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went ...