false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165457645m/4803.jpg 4803 13 Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America's greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year, his many works published as black-spine Penguin Classics for the first time and will feature eye-catching, newly commissioned art. <P> Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation of readers&#151;and to the many who revisit them again and again. 1357995 1941 The Log from the Sea of Cortez total:626|5:168|4:195|3:198|2:50|1:15| 626 2329 946 66 4 17 false false Fri Jul 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 23:47:38 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 04 09:43:28 -0700 2009
The log begins with an introduction Steinbeck wrote, "About Ed Ricketts," after his travel companion from the journey chronicled here died. It's gorgeous! Wha...more...]]> 5 3 false false Wed Mar 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Feb 02 15:38:56 -0800 2009 Thu Apr 23 08:37:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Aug 14 18:10:51 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 14 18:15:40 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri May 01 14:01:54 -0700 2009 Fri May 01 14:02:48 -0700 2009 1. typical great Steinbeck prose, observations of the landscape and the people, both the people he was traveling with on his 1940 Sea of Cortez expedition, and the local people he encoutered
2. scientific observations about the types of marine life found (focus ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Aug 11 11:25:39 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 11:34:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Mar 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Feb 07 23:56:15 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 14 20:49:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Thu Aug 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 17:23:53 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 17:29:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Apr 18 08:22:44 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 18 08:29:52 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Mar 31 07:46:20 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 31 07:48:06 -0700 2009 “A kind of anesthesia settled on the people who knew Ed Ricketts. There was not a sorrow really but rather puzzled questions – what are we going to do now? How can we rearrange our lives now? Everyone who knew him turned inward. It was a strange thing – quiet and strange. We were lost and coul...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Nov 06 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Aug 25 20:07:47 -0700 2008 Thu Nov 06 18:24:12 -0800 2008 Each and every summer, I have a tradition of reading a work from my favorite author, John Steinbeck. (In recent years, I've actually been sneaking in two or three works a year; otherwise, it will be another eighteen years before I complete his catalogue of written works.) For this year's read, I set...

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I must apologise for not being around for so long. I have been quite busy the last few months and I have occasionally visited the group but I’m afraid I haven’t posted anything for quite a while.
Last Summer I read ‘Log from The Sea of Cortez’ by John Steinbeck. Ste...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 17 22:10:09 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 22 10:23:33 -0700 2008
I've only read one other Steinbeck (Grapes of Wrath) and it didn't really inspire me to read more. But this...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jan 07 16:19:08 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 16:23:26 -0800 2009 2 1 false false Mon Jul 16 01:50:13 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 16 02:17:28 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Dec 18 16:32:45 -0800 2007 Tue Dec 18 16:38:24 -0800 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Mar 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 12:59:05 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 13:00:09 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000 Mon Dec 15 17:50:24 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 17:51:49 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997 Fri Mar 27 20:14:43 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 27 21:11:22 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Jan 16 06:43:34 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 05 07:36:36 -0800 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=4803