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The Log from the Sea of Cortez is an English-language book written by American author John Steinbeck and published in 1951. It details a six-week (March 11 – April 20) marine specimen-collecting boat expedition he made in 1940 at various sites in the Gulf of California (also known as the Sea of Cortez), with his friend, the marine biologist ...
- John Steinbeck, Edward Flanders Ricketts, Richard Astro
- 1951
Nov 9, 2022 · In 1940, as humanity’s most ferocious war was rupturing the world, Steinbeck and his marine biologist friend Ed Ricketts decamped to the nonhuman world and its elemental consolations of interdependence, embarking on an exploratory expedition in the Sea of Cortez, also known as the Gulf of California — “a long, narrow, highly dangerous ...
Dec 21, 2023 · John Steinbeck’s Log from the Sea of Cortez captured his voyage to Baja, Mexico, and presaged many of today’s environmental concerns. The journey also provided temporary respite from his growing fame and failing marriage. n 1940, John Steinbeck was in a bad place. He’d finished the 1930s with the publication of The Grapes of Wrath, his ...
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May 20, 2004 · In 1940, author John Steinbeck and his friend Ed Ricketts, a marine biologist, sailed to the Sea of Cortez to document wildlife. Now scientists are re-tracing their route.
Apr 29, 2020 · The trip, which took place fresh off his success from The Grapes of Wrath, would inspire two later Steinbeck books: The Pearl (fiction) and The Log from the Sea of Cortez (nonfiction).
Credit, however, is given to Steinbeck for the book, largely due to historical contingency. The Log from the Sea of Cortez is, in fact, the narrative portion of an earlier, largely unread, account of the expedition, Sea of Cortez, credited to both Steinbeck and Ricketts. After Ricketts’ death in 1948, Steinbeck, at the urging of his editor ...
In March of 1940, marine ecology in the Gulf of California (also known as the Sea of Cortez) was born with the pioneering expedition of Ed Ricketts and John Steinbeck aboard the Western Flyer, a sardine seiner out of Monterey, California. Although biologists had visited the area earlier, none had done so using a holistic ecological approach ...
