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This second volume in the authoritative edition of John Steinbeck (with “Novels and Stories, 1932-1937″) features the Pulitzer-Prize winning masterpiece “The Grapes of Wrath” in a newly corrected text based on the author’s manuscript, typescript, and galleys. “The Harvest Gypsies is Steinbeck’s investigative report on migrant farm workers which laid the groundwork for the novel. “The Long Valley” displays his brilliance with short stories, including such classics as “The Chrysanthemums,” “Flight,” and “The Red Pony.” “The Log from the Sea of Cortez,” about a marine biological expedition, combines science, philosophy, and adventure…. More >>
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This second volume in the authoritative edition of John Steinbeck (with “Novels and Stories, 1932-1937″) features the Pulitzer-Prize winning masterpiece “The Grapes of Wrath” in a newly corrected text based on the author’s manuscript, typescript, and galleys. “The Harvest Gypsies is Steinbeck’s investigative report on migrant farm workers which laid the groundwork for the novel. “The Long Valley” displays his brilliance with short stories, including such classics as “The Chrysanthemums,” “Flight,” and “The Red Pony.” “The Log from the Sea of Cortez,” about a marine biological expedition, combines science, philosophy, and adventure…. More >>
- ISBN13: 9780140187441
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America’s greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year, his many works published as black-spine Penguin Classics for the first time and will feature eye-catching, newly commissioned art. Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation of readers—and to the many who revisit them again and again…. More >>
The Log from the Sea of Cortez
- ISBN13: 9780140187441
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America’s greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year, his many works published as black-spine Penguin Classics for the first time and will feature eye-catching, newly commissioned art. Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation of readers—and to the many who revisit them again and again…. More >>
The Log from the Sea of Cortez
Sixty years after John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts took the Western Flyer on a expedition/adventure to Baja California a team of researchers and biologists set out to retrace their steps. What they discovered has a lot to do with ’shifting baselines’. Video journalist John Vande Wege. … sea cortez john steinbeck ed rickettes baja california overfishing shifting baselines jeremy jackson enric sala visual journalism
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The collaboration of two friends-one a novelist, one a novelist, one a marine biologist-produced a volume in which fascinating popular science is woven into a narrative of man’s dreams, his ideals, and his accomplishments through the centuries. Sea of Cortez is one of those rare books that are all things to all readers. Actually the record of a brief collecting expedition in the lonely GUlf of California, it will be science to the scientist, philosophy to the philosopher, and to the average man an adventure in living and thinking.
Sea of Cortez is a book to be read and remembered on two levels. It is a journey through a remote and beautiful corner of the world, a diary filled with the daily excitements… More >>
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In 1940 Steinbeck sailed in a sardine boat with his great friend the marine biologist, Ed Ricketts, to collect marine invertebrates from the beaches of the Gulf of California. The expedition was described by the two men in “Sea Of Cortez”, published in 1941. The day-to-day story of the trip is told here in the Log, which combines science, philosophy and high-spirited adventure. This book is an exhilarating and highly entertaining read…. More >>
The Log from the “Sea of Cortez”