num_pages: 82
description: In 1940, John Steinbeck, newly famous from the publication of Grapes of Wrath, spent the spring collecting marine specimens with Edward Ricketts and five others aboard a 76 foot purse seiner called the Western Flyer. Their destination was the Sea of Cortez. Also along on this famous expedition were Steinbeck's wife, Carol, Captain Tony Berry, Tex, the engineer, and two crew members Sparky Enea and Tiny Colleto, all later immortalized in Steinbeck's book Sea of A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research. Here is Sparky Enea's humorous and savvy version of those remarkable days adrift off Baja, California. He tells true tales of Cannery Row, Doc Ricketts and the Western Flyer's rambunctious Baja Adventure. Here is the real story of the enduring legend, John Seinbeck, and Sparky's personal log from the Sea of Cortex, recounting those wild and heady days. Follow Sparky to La Paz, and Guaymas, and through days and nights of madcap marine specimen collecting as he and the rest of the crew of the Western Flyer make literary history.
language: English
title: With Steinbeck in the Sea of Cortez: A Memoir of the Steinbeck/Ricketts Expedition
titlecomplete: With Steinbeck in the Sea of Cortez: A Memoir of the Steinbeck/Ricketts Expedition
ratings_count: 13
publisher: Sand River Pr