Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research

by John Steinbeck and Edward F. Ricketts

Book Overview

The collaboration of two friends--one a novelist, one a marine biologist--produced a volume in which fascinating popular science is woven into a narrative of man's dreams, his ideals, and his accomplishments through the centuries. Sea of Cortez is one of those rare books that are all things to all readers. Actually the record of a brief collecting expedition in the lonely Gulf of California, it will be science to the scientist, philosophy to the philosopher,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143117211
• ISBN13: 9780143117216
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 656 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 5.5" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher