Original price of $18.00 printed on dust jacket front flap. Jacket now protected with paper backed polyester film. Book has no writing or marking, [6], 56, [2] pages.

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T�tulo

Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion

Editor

Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston

Fecha de publicaci�n

2007

Idioma

Ingl�s

ISBN 10

0618581316

ISBN 13

9780618581313

Encuadernaci�n

Hardcover

Edici�n

First Edition, First Printing

Estado

Fine

Estado de la sobrecubierta

Fine

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Describes the work of scientist Curtis Ebbesmeyer, whose multi-year project of tracking plastic items accidentally spilled by ocean cargo ships has heightened awareness of the dangers that these items present to ocean life and has inspired similar projects for other types of debris.

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Loree Griffin Burns, Ph.D., did her doctoral work far from the Pacific Ocean, at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. While writing this book, however, she made several trips to the Pacific coast. Ms. Burns lives in Massachusetts with her husband and children.

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