Bibliograph

The rime of the modern mariner, Nick Hayes

Type

Label

The rime of the modern mariner, Nick Hayes

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The rime of the modern mariner

Nature of contents

comics graphic novels

Oclc number

779263706

Responsibility statement

Nick Hayes

Summary

A mariner appears on a park bench and begins his tale. Cursed by an albatross he slew whilst hunting whales, the mariner and his crew find themselves stranded within the North Pacific Garbage Patch: a vast, hypoxic, slow-whirling maelstrom of plastic waste; a hidden repository for the world's litter. Along the way, he meets various characters of our current environmental tragedy: a lady made of oil, a deserted ghost-ship drilling barge, a 2-inch salp (the human race's oceanic ancestor), a blue whale and a hermit. Nostradamus, Cassandra, Medusa, Poseidon, Thor, Gaia, Al-Javari, Mephistopheles and a buzzard also make cameo appearances

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