{"product_id":"breaking-through-essays-journals-and-travelogues-of-edward-f-ricketts-hardcover","title":"Breaking Through: Essays, Journals, and Travelogues of Edward F. Ricketts - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEdward F. Ricketts\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eKatharine A. Rodger\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eEdward F. Ricketts\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrailblazing 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Steinbeck, who once said that Ricketts's mind \"had no horizons.\" This unprecedented collection, featuring previously unpublished pieces as well as others available for the first time in their original form, reflects the wide scope of Ricketts's scientific, philosophical, and literary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's unique, holistic approach to science, include \"Verbatim transcription of notes on the Gulf of California trip,\" the basic manuscript for Steinbeck's and Ricketts's \u003ci\u003eLog from the Sea of Cortez;\u003c\/i\u003e 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's life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo have begun to know Ed Ricketts even a little--whether as the satyr-god of Cannery Row, pioneering ecologist and marine biologist, magical Steinbeck character, co-author of a classic 'voyage of discovery, ' or legendary friend and mentor of the great--is to want to know more.--From the foreword by Susan F. Beegel, editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Hemingway Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis biography and collection is invaluable for those seeking to understand all about Ed Ricketts, not as Steinbeck's Doc, but as the complex, visionary thinker and scientist that he was. Rodger gives us Ricketts's seminal writings, some for the first time in print, that reveal his lifelong struggle to come to grips with the complexities of marine ecology at all levels. Today's researchers would do well to try and grasp his prescient, holistic ideas about the universal connections linking organisms, species, communities, and their environment.--William F. Gilly, Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo have begun to know Ed Ricketts even a little--whether as the satyr-god of Cannery Row, pioneering ecologist and marine biologist, magical Steinbeck character, co-author of a classic 'voyage of discovery, ' or legendary friend and mentor of the great--is to want to know more.--From the foreword by Susan F. Beegel, editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Hemingway Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This biography and collection is invaluable for those seeking to understand all about Ed Ricketts, not as Steinbeck's \"Doc,\" but as the complex, visionary thinker and scientist that he was. Rodger gives us Ricketts's seminal writings, some for the first time in print, that reveal his lifelong struggle to come to grips with the complexities of marine ecology at all levels. Today's researchers would do well to try and grasp his prescient, holistic ideas about the universal connections linking organisms, species, communities, and their environment.\"--William F. Gilly, Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdward F. Ricketts\u003c\/b\u003e co-authored several books, among them \u003ci\u003eBetween Pacific Tides\u003c\/i\u003e (1939), now in its fifth, revised edition and still regarded as the definitive ecological handbook on the California littoral. \u003cb\u003eKatharine A. Rodger\u003c\/b\u003e is editor of \u003ci\u003eRenaissance Man of Cannery Row: The Life and Letters of Edward F. Ricketts\u003c\/i\u003e (2002). \u003cb\u003eSusan F. Beegel, \u003c\/b\u003e editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Hemingway Review\u003c\/i\u003e, coedited \u003ci\u003eSteinbeck and the Environment \u003c\/i\u003e(1997).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 369\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.15 x 9.32 x 6.24 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 20, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44276266696806,"sku":"9780520247048","price":166.12,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/UXpHdHBmRTIvQlFCQktlL1EyVVBVQT09.webp?v=1766427224","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/breaking-through-essays-journals-and-travelogues-of-edward-f-ricketts-hardcover","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}