STEINBECK, John, & Edward F. Ricketts.

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Sea of Cortez. First edition. Steinbeck and Ricketts's account of their six-week marine collecting expedition of 1940 contains "more of the whole man, John Steinbeck, than any of his novels" (Lewis Gannett).Steinbeck was greatly influenced by the marine biologist Ricketts (1897-1948), whose "acceptance of people as they were and of life as he found it was remarkable, articulated by what he called nonteleological or 'is' thinking. Steinbeck adapted the term and the stance. His fiction examines 'what is'" (ANB). The narrative section by Steinbeck includes their "philosophical musings as well as keen observations on Mexican peasantry, hermit crabs, and 'dryball' scientists" (ANB). It is appended by Ricketts's scientific catalogue, which was dropped when Steinbeck's narrative was republished as The Log From the Sea of Cortez (1951).

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