Sea Of Cortez A Leisurely Journal Of Travel And Research

Author : John Steinbeck,Edward F. Ricketts
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-08
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780143117216

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Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck,Edward F. Ricketts Pdf

The collaboration of two friends—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. The teeming and wildly competitive world of the sand flats is seen in terms of history, politics, ethics, and sociology; a starfish is important, not only because it is a new variety, but because it is essential to the delicate balance of the whole region in which it is found. Steinbeck and Ricketts are the opposite of “pure” scientists: it is not only their work that fascinates them, but the complicated and enormously exciting implications of that work. 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 and triumphs of skillful and energetic men. It is also an invitation to see the world anew from a fresh vantage point and perhaps with a broader and more understanding spirit.

Author : John Steinbeck,Edward Flanders Ricketts
Publisher : New York : The Viking Press
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : California, Gulf of
ISBN : UCSC:32106000682010

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Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck,Edward Flanders Ricketts Pdf

Advance copy, unrevised proofs, of the 1941 Viking Press edition of Sea of Cortez. This proof contains Part I only, meaning the log of the trip written (mostly) by Steinbeck, but not Part II with the scientific appendix by Ricketts and its color plates.

Author : John Steinbeck,Edward Flanders Ricketts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : California, Gulf of (Mexico)
ISBN : LCCN:41052050

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Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck,Edward Flanders Ricketts Pdf

Author : John Steinbeck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Marine animals
ISBN : OCLC:767741120

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Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck Pdf

Author : John Steinbeck,Edward F. Ricketts
Publisher : Penguin Group USA
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 0143117211

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Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck,Edward F. Ricketts Pdf

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 and triumphs of skillful and energetic men. It is also an invitation to see the world anew from a fresh vantage point and perhaps with a broader and more understanding spirit.

Author : John Steinbeck,Edward Flanders Ricketts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : California, Gulf of (Mexico)
ISBN : OCLC:1375475363

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Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck,Edward Flanders Ricketts Pdf

Artists’ book. Original volume has had cover enhanced with etching and gouache on front and back covers, and monoprints of sea life on end papers.

Author : John Steinbeck
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101138878

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The Short Novels of John Steinbeck by John Steinbeck Pdf

A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of Steinbeck's brilliant short novels Collected here for the first time in a deluxe paperback volume are six of John Steinbeck's most widely read and beloved novels. From the tale of commitment, loneliness and hope in Of Mice and Men, to the tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of society in Cannery Row, to The Pearl's examination of the fallacy of the American dream, Steinbeck stories of realism, that were imbued with energy and resilience. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : John Steinbeck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1096 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015036032368

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John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath & Other Writings 1936-1941 (LOA #86) by John Steinbeck Pdf

The Long Valley, The Grapes of Wrath, The Log from the Sea of Cortez, The Harvest Gypsies .

Author : Eric Enno Tamm
Publisher : Raincoast Books
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1551927330

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Beyond the Outer Shores by Eric Enno Tamm Pdf

Author : John Steinbeck
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1990-12-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0140144579

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Working Days by John Steinbeck Pdf

John Steinbeck wrote The Grapes of Wrath during an astonishing burst of activity between June and October of 1938. Throughout the time he was creating his greatest work, Steinbeck faithfully kept a journal revealing his arduous journey toward its completion. The journal, like the novel it chronicles, tells a tale of dramatic proportions—of dogged determination and inspiration, yet also of paranoia, self-doubt, and obstacles. It records in intimate detail the conception and genesis of The Grapes of Wrath and its huge though controversial success. It is a unique and penetrating portrait of an emblematic American writer creating an essential American masterpiece.

Author : Linda Wagner-Martin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137553829

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John Steinbeck by Linda Wagner-Martin Pdf

This book aims to both describe and analyze the way Steinbeck learned the writing craft. It begins with his immersion in the short story, some years after he stopped attending Stanford University. Aside from a weak first novel, his professional writing career began with the publication in 1932 of The Pastures of Heaven, stories set in the Salinas Valley and dedicated to his parents. From that book he wrote truly commanding stories such as The Red Pony. Intermixed with Steinbeck’s journalism about California’s labor difficulties, his writing skill led to his 1930 masterpieces, Of Mice and Men, In Dubious Battle, and The Grapes of Wrath. The latter novel, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1940, led eventually to his being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. He continued producing such wide-ranging works as The Pearl, East of Eden, The Winter of Our Discontent, and Travels with Charley up to just a few months before his death in 1968.

Author : John Steinbeck
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1980-01-31
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781440638886

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Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck Pdf

An intimate journey across and in search of America, as told by one of its most beloved writers, in a deluxe centennial edition In September 1960, John Steinbeck embarked on a journey across America. He felt that he might have lost touch with the country, with its speech, the smell of its grass and trees, its color and quality of light, the pulse of its people. To reassure himself, he set out on a voyage of rediscovery of the American identity, accompanied by a distinguished French poodle named Charley; and riding in a three-quarter-ton pickup truck named Rocinante. His course took him through almost forty states: northward from Long Island to Maine; through the Midwest to Chicago; onward by way of Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana (with which he fell in love), and Idaho to Seattle, south to San Francisco and his birthplace, Salinas; eastward through the Mojave, New Mexico, Arizona, to the vast hospitality of Texas, to New Orleans and a shocking drama of desegregation; finally, on the last leg, through Alabama, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey to New York. Travels with Charley in Search of America is an intimate look at one of America's most beloved writers in the later years of his life—a self-portrait of a man who never wrote an explicit autobiography. Written during a time of upheaval and racial tension in the South—which Steinbeck witnessed firsthand—Travels with Charley is a stunning evocation of America on the eve of a tumultuous decade. This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition also features French flaps and deckle-edged paper. For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Edward Flanders Ricketts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Animal behavior
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030012515104

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Between Pacific tides; an account of the habits and habitats of some five hundred of the common, conspicuous seashore invertebrates on the Pacific Coast Between Sitka, Alaska, and northern Mexico by Edward Flanders Ricketts Pdf

Author : John Steinbeck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 238226425X

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The Log from the Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck by John Steinbeck Pdf

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 Ed Ricketts. It is regarded as one of Steinbeck's most important works of non-fiction chiefly because of the involvement of Ricketts, who shaped Steinbeck's thinking and provided the prototype for many of the pivotal characters in his fiction, and the insights it gives into the philosophies of the two men. The Log from the Sea of Cortez is the narrative portion of an earlier work, Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research, which was published by Steinbeck and Ricketts shortly after their return from the Gulf of California, and combined the journals of the collecting expedition, reworked by Steinbeck, with Ricketts' species catalogue. After Ricketts' death in 1948, Steinbeck dropped the species catalogue from the earlier work and republished it with a eulogy to his friend added as a foreword.

Author : Morten L. Kringelbach,Kent C. Berridge
Publisher : Affective Science
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780195331028

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Pleasures of the Brain by Morten L. Kringelbach,Kent C. Berridge Pdf

Pleasure is fundamental to well-being and the quality of life, but until recently, was barely explored by science. Current research on pleasure has brought about ground-breaking developments on several fronts, and new data on pleasure and the brain have begun to converge from many disparate fields. The time is ripe to present these important findings in a single volume, and so Morten Kringelbach and Kent Berridge have brought together the leading researchers to provides a comprehensive review of our current scientific understanding of pleasure. The authors present their latest neuroscientific research into pleasure, describing studies on the brain's role in pleasure and reward in animals and humans, including brain mechanisms, neuroimaging data, and psychological analyses, as well as how their findings have been applied to clinical problems, such as depression and other disorders of hedonic well-being. To clarify the differences between their views, the researchers also provide short answers to a set of fundamental questions about pleasure and its relation to the brain. This book is intended to serve as both a starting point for readers new to the field, and as a reference for more experienced graduate students and scientists from fields such as neuroscience, psychology, psychiatry, neurology, and neurosurgery.