Avery
Titles appearing in Reference — Research Book News — December 2011
Plastic ocean; how a sea captain's chance discovery launched a determined quest to save the oceans.
Moore, Charles.
Avery, ©2011 358 p. $26.00 GC1085
978-1-58333-424-9
Sailing back from a trans-Pacific race in 1997, Captain Charles Moore and his crew stumbled across what is now known as the "Great North Pacific Garbage Patch" or the "Pacific Trash Vortex," a vast gyre of decomposing plastics, chemical sludge, and other pollutants collecting in the waters between Hawaii and the West Coast of the US. This experience launched him on a campaign to draw public and scientific attention to the giant patch of pollution, its harmful effects on the ocean environment, and the human practices that have led to its formation; a campaign that he recounts here with the aid of journalist Phillips. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
