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- In the spring of 1940, the boat was chartered for six weeks by the novelist John Steinbeck, who had published The Grapes of Wrath the previous year, earning national acclaim, sudden wealth and death threats from reactionaries outraged by the novel’s populist message.
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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
- 288
- 1951
- 1951
Amelia Mularz. Apr 29, 2020 • 7 min read. Fishing boat in the Sea of Cortez on the Baja California Peninsula near La Paz Mexico. Image: Shutterstock. For a good portion of quarantine, I’ve had John Steinbeck on the brain. This spring marks 80 years since the author and eventual Nobel Prize winner embarked on a six-week expedition ...
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 ...
With his close friend Ed Ricketts, a brilliant, eccentric marine biologist, Steinbeck sailed to the Sea of Cortez to survey marine life along the Baja coast, escape from the modern world and...
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 ...
Sep 20, 2004 · Novelist John Steinbeck and marine biologist Ed Ricketts collaborated in 1940 to write The Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research, a travelogue of their six-week voyage along the Baja California peninsula and a serious investigation of the aquatic life of the adjacent Sea of Cortez (also known as the Gulf of California).
Jan 10, 2014 · It is John Steinbeck’s The Log from the Sea of Cortez. That’s not entirely true. While the cover bears the name of the author of Cannery Row , Of Mice and Men, and The Grapes of Wrath, The Log from the Sea of Cortez was a collaboration between the Nobel prize-winning novelist and marine biologist Ed Ricketts.
