Sea of Cortez : A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research

by Steinbeck, John & E.F. Ricketts

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New York: The Viking Press, 1941. First printing of the First Edition. With a Scientific Appendix Comprising Materials for a Source Book on the Marine Animals of the Panamic Fanual Province. In very good condition, with fraying to bottom corners and foot of spine, and a bump to the bottom corner, causing light creasing to corner pages, pages are fresh, clean and unmarked, spine straight and tight; in a very good dustjacket, with chipping to spine ends and corners, a short closed tear, inner flaps in fine, crisp condition.. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good.

Book summary

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.