Przemysław Durlik từ Suárez, Tolima, Colombia

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05/05/2024

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2019-02-22 07:30

Bản Giao Hưởng Số 6 Của Tchaikovsky Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

A book, even a nonfiction book, isn't a Wikipedia article. Books have deviations, details, and distractions. They meander, or take unexpected paths. Do you remember reading the news story about the rubber ducks that all went over the side of a tanker? They went all over the world and scientists used them to learn all sorts of cool things about ocean currents. I remember reading about it in Scholastic News (which, apparently, covered the story no fewer than seven times). And it recently turned up in an Eric Carle board book I bought for my infant son, 10 Little Rubber Ducks. There's just something enchanting about the image of cheerful bright yellow little ducks braving Arctic waters and unfathomable depths to teach scientists something they didn't know. I can imagine, when Donovan Hohn pitched this book idea, the publishers ate it up. Unfortunately, for our imaginations and for Hahn's book, the story turns out to be almost entirely untrue. Yes, a container of bath toys fell off a container ship in mysteriously high seas. It broke up, releasing thousands of bath toys into the ocean. They were made of plastic, though; not rubber. And they weren't just ducks. A fourth of them were, but the ducks were part of a set of four that included a beaver, a turtle, and a frog. And while it turns out that scientists can learn about currents from container ship spills, they didn't learn very much from this one. But the legend lives on, and Hohn indefatigably tracks down the ship spill, people who clean up beaches, dedicated beachcombers, the factory in China that makes the bath toys, the psychology of rubber ducks, and those who study ocean currents. It's a good book in that it includes some striking characters, awesome information, and engaging anecdotes, but it's not really the story of the ducks. Which brings us back to the beginning of this review: a book isn't a Wikipedia post. This is the intriguing story of a non-story.

Người đọc Przemysław Durlik từ Suárez, Tolima, Colombia

Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.