The Rime of the Modern Mariner
Author(s): Nick Hayes
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.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Vintage
- : Jonathan Cape Ltd
- : 0.908
- : 01 May 2011
- : 242mm X 149mm X 37mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 May 2011
- : books
Special Fields
- : 336
- : Hardback
- : Nick Hayes