The rime of the modern mariner / Nick Hayes.
2012
PN6737.H39 R55 2012 (Mapit)
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Title
The rime of the modern mariner / Nick Hayes.
Author
Hayes, Nick (Illustrator)
Edition
1st American ed.
ISBN
9780670025800
0670025801
0670025801
Publication Details
New York : Viking Press, 2012.
Language
English
Description
1 v. (unpaged) : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
PN6737.H39 R55 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
741.5
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: a lady made of oil, a deserted ghost-ship drilling barge, a 2-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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