A delightful and fascinating, wacky and well-researched, and very well written account of the fate of 28,800 brightly colored plastic toys which went overboard off the Aleutian Islands in a container during a hurricane in 1992.   Holm tells the tale of their fate through a narrative of his travels to Gore Point, Alaska to clean beaches of plastic trash, to Hawaii where he sails with Charlie Moore to measure the density of the Garbage Patch in the Pacific, to Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta where he visits the plastic factory where the toys were made, to Woods Hole and Greenland where he sails on an oceanographic research ship measuring underwater storms and eddies, and to Cambridge Bay in the Arctic Sea on a Canadian ice breaker where he searches for the Northwest Passage.  A fact-filled adventure story told with a wry sense of self-depracating humor.  A great intro to our oceans and how we may destroy them.  Moby Dick and Herman Melville are constant presences.