The Log from the Sea of CortezJohn Steinbeck (1951) |
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THE A5 BOOK REVIEWThe Log from the Sea of Cortez is a book by the famous John Steinbeck, detailing an expedition he took to Mexico with his marine biologist friend, Ed Ricketts, in 1940. Steinbeck was becoming famous at this point, especially after the publication of The Grapes of Wrath, and this trip was a chance for him to relax and escape with his long-time friend and his wife. (Unfortunately the failing marriage ended soon after; she barely got any mention at all in the book.) The plan was to collect planned to collect marine specimens and to publish a journal that would pay for their trip, but Steinbeck’s log of their journey became the more successful book. Steinbeck’s travel book is now recognized as an important part of his legacy, partially for the first hand description of Ricketts, a man who had been such an influence on Steinbeck’s writing and an inspiration for several of his pivotal characters.
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John Steinbeck is regarded as one of America's greatest writers, and a Nobel Prize winner for literature. He is the author of twenty-seven books, and probably best known known for his Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Grapes of Wrath (1939), Of Mice and Men (1937), and East of Eden (1952). Learn more about John Steinbeck by clicking here.
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Searching for Steinbeck's Sea of CortezSearching for Steinbeck’s Sea of Cortez is a book written in 2002 about a family who, inspired by Steinbeck, took their own trip to explore the Sea of Cortez and to become amateur naturalists. Their journey is of course their own, especially given the company of two small children, but the experience is similarly enjoyable. Click here for our review of Searching for Steinbeck's Sea of Cortez.
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LEAVE YOUR OWN REVIEW HEREGREAT QUOTES FROM THE SEA OF CORTEZ“We wanted to see everything our eyes would accommodate, to think what we could, and, out of our seeing and thinking, to build some kind of structure in modeled imitation of the observed reality. We knew that what we would see and record and construct would be warped, as all knowledge patterns are warped, first, by the collective pressure and stream of our time and race, second by the thrust of our individual personalities. But knowing this, we might not fall into too many holes—we might maintain some balance between our warp and the separate thing, the external reality.”
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