The Log from The Sea of Cortez

Informationen zum Autor John Steinbeck (1902-68) is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the twentieth century. During the 1930s, his works included The Red Pony , Pastures of Heaven , Tortilla Flat , In Dubious Battle , and Of Mice and Men . The Grapes of Wrath , published in 1939, earned him a Pulitzer Prize. In 1962, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Klappentext Nobel-Prize winning author John Steinbeck is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the twentieth century. His complete works will be available in Penguin Modern Classics. Zusammenfassung In 1940 Steinbeck sailed in a sardine boat with his great friend the marine biologist, Ed Ricketts, to collect marine invertebrates from the beaches of the Gulf of California. The expedition was described by the two men in Sea of Cortez, published in 1941.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Astro, John Steinbeck
• Assisted by: Richard Astro (Introduction), Astro Richard (Introduction)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.01.2001
• EAN: 9780141186078
• ISBN: 978-0-14-118607-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Penguin Pocketbooks; Penguin Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics; Penguin Pocketbooks
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, Memoirs, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Marine Biology, HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Oceanography, Geographical discovery & exploration, Geographical discovery and exploration, Pacific Ocean, Marine Biology, Oceanography (seas and oceans), Oceanography (seas), Biography: adventurers and explorers