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A Tidal Odyssey - Ed Ricketts and the Making of Between Pacific Tides (Paperback)
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A Tidal Odyssey - Ed Ricketts and the Making of Between Pacific Tides (Paperback)
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In 1948, just weeks before his best friend, marine biologist Ed
Ricketts died, John Steinbeck wrote of Ricketts process of
discovery, noting that "a young, inquisitive, and original man
might one morning find a fissure in the traditional technique of
thinking. Through this fissure he might look out and find a new
external world about him." A Tidal Odyssey a conversation about
that "young, inquisitive, and original man" who found "a new
external world about him" and so captivated the imagination of
scientists and lay readers alike as he transformed our
understanding of the seashore. This is a book about that remarkable
man and his pathbreaking book about marine life on the Pacific
Coast of North America. With his friend Jack Calvin, Ricketts
authored his magnum opus, Between Pacific Tides (1939), a guide to
the seashore invertebrates in one of the most prolific life zones
in the world. He and Calvin describe the key field characteristics
of the species, and then place them in their ecological context, by
habitat, in a natural history-based narrative. At a time when
almost all studies of life in the intertidal zones were taxonomic,
Ricketts and Calvin revolutionized the field and helped to lay the
groundwork for studies of the impact of environmental change on the
natural world. By happenstance, Ed Ricketts is best known as a
character in John Steinbeck's fiction. But the real man is obscured
by Steinbeck's authorial license. Steinbeck's Doc is the quirky
young man who reads Li Po and drinks beer milkshakes. He was also a
serious marine biologist who conducted pioneering studies of life
in the intertidal zones. He was a true renaissance man --
conversant in music and philosophy, poetry and mythology. Friendly
with such notables as mythologist Joseph Campbell, experimental
composer John Cage, and novelist Henry Miller, as well as with
Steinbeck and many of the most eminent biologists of his time, he
was a man for all seasons. This, then, is a book for readers who
are interested in the world of Ed Ricketts as well as marine
biology, intertidal ecology, and the manner in which ecological
studies underpin our understanding of the impact of environmental
change on the well being of our planet.
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