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Breaking Through - Essays, Journals, and Travelogues of Edward F. Ricketts (Hardcover)
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Discovery Miles 4 540
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Breaking Through - Essays, Journals, and Travelogues of Edward F. Ricketts (Hardcover)
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Price R454
Discovery Miles 4 540
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Discovery Miles: 4 640
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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' 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previously unpublished pieces as well as others available for the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' 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' unique, holistic approach to science, include
'Verbatim transcription of notes on the Gulf of California trip,'
the basic manuscript for Steinbeck's and Ricketts' 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' life.
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