Log from the 'Sea of Cortez,' The
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Published: April 28, 1977
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780140042610
Description: Cover blurb: 'In 1940 John Steinbeck sailed a sardine boat with his great friend, the biologist Edward F. Ricketts, to collect marine invertebrates from the beaches of the Gulf of California.

This is the day-to-day story of the trip, a wonderful combination of science, philosophy, and high-spirited adventure. Included here, too, is Steinbeck's profile of his collaborator, "About Ed Ricketts." '
Notes: Ed Ricketts was the inspiration for the character "Doc" in Steinbeck's novels _Cannery Row and _Sweet Thursday.
Table of contents: pagenum: vii
class: section
title: About Ed Ricketts; pagenum: 1
title: Introduction; pagenum: 5
title: Log; pagenum: 323
title: Glosssary; pagenum: 327
title: Index