Breaking Through: Essays, Journals, and Travelogues of Edward F. Ricketts

by Edward F. Ricketts

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's mind "had...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520247043
• ISBN13: 9780520247048
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 369 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"