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The authors tell one of the Earth's great secrets - a previously hidden system of ocean currents - revealed through fascinating stories of flotsam. Using all kinds of stuff that ends up in the ocean, maverick scientist Ebbesmeyer solved a profound mystery and changed everything we know about our environment.

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With a whimsical mood overlaying serious science, Ebbesmeyer s work will appeal to the environmentally minded. --Booklist Light and lively...Shoes, messages in bottles, and floating rubber ducks have kept Ebbesmeyer s eye on the big picture. Besides, as readers will readily agree, they ve been a lot of fun to study. --Natural History magazine Whether you want to learn more about how the oceans tick or how we are affecting our environment, or to reminisce about science not being what it used to be, this is a very enjoyable, if at times dark, book.--Nature As much genial personal memoir as pop-oceanography exposition When science goes right, we discover how mid-ocean spills of hockey gloves or rubber ducks enhance oceanographic understanding;--The Guardian Part oceanography lesson, part memoir, this cheerful book examines Ebbesmeyer s life and work as a pioneering oceanographer (the first to work for Mobil/Standard Oil, in 1969) and connoisseur of beach-combed artifacts. --Publishers Weekly Light and lively...Shoes, messages in bottles, and floating rubber ducks have kept Ebbesmeyer's eye on the big picture. Besides, as readers will readily agree, they've been a lot of fun to study. --Natural History magazine As much genial personal memoir as pop-oceanography exposition...When science goes right, we discover how mid-ocean spills of hockey gloves or rubber ducks enhance oceanographic understanding;--The Guardian Part oceanography lesson, part memoir, this cheerful book examines Ebbesmeyer's life and work as a pioneering oceanographer (the first to work for Mobil/Standard Oil, in 1969) and connoisseur of beach-combed artifacts. --Publishers Weekly With a whimsical mood overlaying serious science, Ebbesmeyer's work will appeal to the environmentally minded. --Booklist

With a whimsical mood overlaying serious science, Ebbesmeyer's work will appeal to the environmentally minded. --Booklist

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