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- During World War II, Steinbeck served as a war correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune. Around this same time, he traveled to Mexico to collect marine life with friend Edward F. Ricketts, a marine biologist. Their collaboration resulted in the book Sea of Cortez (1941), which describes marine life in the Gulf of California.
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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
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, reworked the earlier book to emphasize the narrative, secured the rights from Ricketts’ son ...
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.
In 2015 it was definitely my subjective, 55-year-old self that purchased the boat that took Steinbeck and Ricketts to the Sea of Cortez, the Western Flyer. The boat and its history mean more to me every day. John Gregg. Founder and Director of the Western Flyer Foundation.
Nov 2, 2023 · Photos from the original voyage of the Western Flyer - (top) Western Flyer’s original captain, Tony Berry (right), and writer-turned-explorer John Steinbeck. (bottom right) Sparky Enea and Travis “Tex” Hall swimming during the Sea of Cortez expedition. (bottom left) Aboard the Baby Flyer: Ed Ricketts, John Steinbeck, Carol Steinbeck and Ritzi “T...
The Western Flyer is a fishing boat, most known for its use by John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts in their 1940 expedition to the Gulf of California, the notes from which culminated in their 1941 book Sea of Cortez, later reworked by Steinbeck into The Log from the Sea of Cortez (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 ...
