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Breaking Through

Essays, Journals, and Travelogues of Edward F. Ricketts

By: Edward F. Ricketts Jr.

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Breaking Through

Essays, Journals, and Travelogues of Edward F. Ricketts

By: Edward F. Ricketts Jr.

Trailblazing marine biologist, visionary conservationist, deep ecology philosopher, Edward F. Ricketts (1897–1948) has reached legendary status in the California mythos. A true polymath and a thinker ahead of his time, Ricketts was a scientist who worked in passionate collaboration with many of his friends—artists, writers, and influential intellectual figures—including, perhaps most famously, John Steinbeck, who once said that Ricketts's mind "had no horizons." This unprecedented collection, featuring previously unpublished pieces as well as others available for the first time in their original form, reflects the wide scope of Ricketts’s scientific, philosophical, and literary interests during the years he lived and worked on Cannery Row in Monterey, California. These writings, which together illuminate the evolution of Ricketts’s unique, holistic approach to science, include "Verbatim transcription of notes on the Gulf of California trip," the basic manuscript for Steinbeck’s and Ricketts’s Log from the Sea of Cortez; the essays "The Philosophy of Breaking Through" and "A Spiritual Morphology of Poetry;" several shorter pieces on topics including collecting invertebrates and the impact of modernization on Mexican village life; and more. An engaging critical biography and a number of rare photographs offer a new and richly detailed view of Ricketts’s life.

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Univ of California Press

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0520932668

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9780520932661

Renaissance Man of Cannery Row

The Life and Letters of Edward F. Ricketts

By: Edward F. Ricketts

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The Life and Letters of Edward F. Ricketts

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Many of Rickett's letters discuss his studies of the Pacific littoral and his theories of "phalanx" and transcendence. Epistles to family members, often tender and humorous, add dimension and depth to Steinbeck's mythologized depictions of Ricketts." "Editor Katharine A. Rodger has enriched the correspondence with an introduction, a biographical essay, and a list of works cited. The book will be important for students of John Steinbeck and the development of 20th-century American fiction, as well as for those interested in the history of science, especially in the fields of marine biology and ecology."--Jacket.

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University of Alabama Press

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0817311726

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9780817311728

Renaissance Man of Cannery Row

The Life and Letters of Edward F. Ricketts

By: Edward F. Ricketts

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Breaking Through

Essays, Journals, and Travelogues of Edward F. Ricketts

By: Edward F. Ricketts Jr.

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The Log from the Sea of Cortez

By: John Steinbeck,Edward Flanders Ricketts

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The Log from the Sea of Cortez

By: John Steinbeck,Edward Flanders Ricketts

In 1940 John Steinbeck sailed in a sardine boat with his friend the biologist Edward F. Ricketts to collect marine invertebrates from the beaches of the gulf of California. This work describes this expedition.

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Penguin UK

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0141186070

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