The rime of the modern mariner /
A mariner appears on a park bench and begins his tale. Cursed by an albatross he slew whilst hunting whales, the mariner and his crew find themselves stranded within the North Pacific Garbage Patch, a vast, hypoxic, slow-whirling maelstrom of plastic waste, a hidden repository for the world's l...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Viking Press,
2012.
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| Edition: | 1st American ed. |
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| Summary: | A mariner appears on a park bench and begins his tale. Cursed by an albatross he slew whilst hunting whales, the mariner and his crew find themselves stranded within the North Pacific Garbage Patch, a vast, hypoxic, slow-whirling maelstrom of plastic waste, a hidden repository for the world's litter. Along the way, he meets various characters of our current environmental tragedy, including a lady made of oil, a deserted ghost-ship drilling barge, a two-inch salp (the human race's oceanic ancestor), a blue whale and a hermit. Nostradamus, Cassandra, Medusa, Poseidon, Thor, Gaia, Al-Javari, Mephistopheles and a buzzard also make cameo appearances. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780670025800 0670025801 |