In 1940, Steinbeck and the biologist Edward Ricketts took a sardine boat out of Monterey on a 4,000 mile trip around the Baja peninsula into the Sea of Cortez. This is Steinbeck's account of that adventure.
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In 1940, Steinbeck and the biologist Edward Ricketts took a sardine boat out of Monterey on a 4,000 mile trip around the Baja peninsula into the Sea of Cortez. This is Steinbeck's account of that adventure.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" In blue and red jacket over green cloth with silver titling, 8vo, 598pp. Illustrated with color and b/w illustrations. A wonderful copy inscribed to long-lived Irish rabble-rowser Sheila O'Leary on the half title page by Steinbeck: "For Sheila O'leary-O'leary-O'leary-For Sheila O'leary. -John Steinbeck". (slight edgewear to outer jacket at tips and corners, slight toning to edges and endpapers).