Trailblazing marine biologist, visionary conservationist, deep ecology philosopher, Edward F. Ricketts (18971948) 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 friendsartists, writers, and influential intellectual figuresincluding, perhaps most famously, John Steinbeck, who once said that Ricketts's mind had no horizons. This unprecedented collection, featuring previously unpublished pieces as well as others available for the first time in their original...
Trailblazing marine biologist, visionary conservationist, deep ecology philosopher, Edward F. Ricketts (18971948) has reached legendary status in the ...
This portrait of one of John Steinbeck's closest friends illuminates the life and work of a figure central to the development of scientific and literary thought in the 20th century.
Marine biologist Edward F. Ricketts is perhaps best known as the inspiration for John Steinbeck's most empathic literary characters Doc in Cannery Row, Slim in Of Mice and Men, Jim Casy in The Grapes of Wrath, and Lee in East of Eden. The correspondence of this accomplished scientist, writer, and philosopher reveals the influential exchange of ideas he shared with such...
This portrait of one of John Steinbeck's closest friends illuminates the life and work of a figure central to the development of scientific and ...
