Stevens Memorial Library (North Andover)

Plastiki, across the Pacific on plastic : an adventure to save our oceans, David de Rothschild, as told to Jim Gorman ; foreword by Achim Steiner

eng

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non fiction

Plastiki

664674873

David de Rothschild, as told to Jim Gorman ; foreword by Achim Steiner

across the Pacific on plastic : an adventure to save our oceans

Explorer, global green leader, and eco-TV host David de Rothschild recounts the extraordinary journey of the Plastiki, an innovative and mostly untested sixty-foot catamaran that floats on 12,500 reclaimed plastic bottles. It was a voyage that took de Rothschild and a five-person crew 10,000 miles from the U.S. to Australia, sailing through rarely traveled, dangerous waters, risking their lives to call attention to our fragile oceans. Their exploration included urgent study of ocean pollution, island nations threatened by rising seas, damaged coral reefs, and the acidifying ocean itself and their discoveries are a call to action. Packed with exciting narrative, images, maps, journal entries, plans, and sketches, this is the only firsthand account of what may be the most important adventure of our time.--Publisher description

The birth of a dream -- Designing Plastiki -- Sunrise over a synthetic sea -- Polymers are forever -- Clear sailing -- 24 hours on Plastiki -- Crossing the equator -- State of the oceans -- Next stop, oz -- Epilogue : Sydney, ho!