- Biography & Autobiography, Description and travel, Journeys, Marine animals
This exciting day-by-day account of Steinbeck's trip to the Gulf of California with biologist Ed Ricketts, drawn from the longer Sea of Cortez, is a wonderful combination of science, philosophy, and high-spirited adventure.
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Warm, intimate, earnest and cool.
- warmbleak
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- John Steinbeck
- First published
- 1941
- Pages
- 284
- Publisher
- Mandarin, Penguin USA, Inc., Steinberg
- Editions
- 36
- Language
- German, Spanish, Polish, English
- ISBN
- 9782382264256
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John Steinbeck was an American writer. He wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel *The Grapes of Wrath* (1939) and the novella *Of Mice and Men* (1937). He wrote a total of 27 books, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and five collections of short stories. In 1962, Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature ([Source][1]). [1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck
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