captain charles moore (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Autorensignatur; Leichte Rillen / Abschürfungen / Risse / Knicke; Farbtonänderung. A prominent seafaring environmentalist and researcher shares his shocking discovery of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the Pacific Ocean, and inspires a fundamental rethinking of the Plastic Age and a growing global health crisis. In the summer of 1997, Charles Moore set sail from Honolulu with the sole intention of returning home after competing in a trans-Pacific race. To get to California, he and his crew took a shortcut through the seldom-traversed North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, a vast "oceanic desert" where winds are slack and sailing ships languish. There, Moore realized his catamaran was surrounded by a "plastic soup." He had stumbled upon the largest garbage dump on the planet-a spiral nebula where plastic outweighed zooplankton, the ocean's food base, by a factor of six to one. In "Plastic Ocean," Moore recounts his ominous findings and unveils the secret life and hidden properties of plastics. From milk jugs to polymer molecules small enough to penetrate human skin or be unknowingly inhaled, plastic is now suspected of contributing to a host of ailments including infertility, autism, thyroid dysfunction, and some cancers. A call to action as urgent as Rachel Carson's seminal "Silent Spring," Moore's sobering revelations will be embraced by activists, concerned parents, and seafaring enthusiasts concerned about the deadly impact and implications of this man made blight.

Illustrated. (illustrator). First Edition. One of 500 copies. Very Good (covers nice; contents clean & tight). 8vo., white pictorial wraps; 60 pages.

Leather. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). First edition. The very scarce three volume first edition of this collection of sermons, attractively bound in uniform calf bindings. The very scarce first edition, complete in three volumes.The sermons of the late reverend Charles Moore, edited and published by his son, Captain Charles Moore.With twenty sermons to volume I, twenty to volume II, and twenty-three to volume III.In full calf bindings, with blind tooling.With an errata leaf to each volume, and a half title to volume III.With a bookseller's label to each front pastedown. In full calf bindings, with blind tooling. Light discolouration to back strips, with boards bright. Book seller's label to each front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed. book.