Log from the Sea of Cortez - Book

An exciting day-by-day account of Steinbeck's trip to the Gulf of CA with botanist Ed Ricketts. A wonderful combination of science, philosophy and high-spirited cruising adventure.

John Steinbeck's The Log from the Sea of Cortez, published in 1951, details a six-week marine specimen-collecting boat expedition he made in 1940 to sites in the Gulf of California with his friend, the marine biologist Ed Ricketts. It is drawn from the longer book Sea of Cortez.

It is regarded as one of Steinbeck's most important works of nonfiction, chiefly because of Ricketts, who shaped Steinbeck's thinking and provided the prototype for many of the pivotal characters in his fiction. A must for anyone cruising Baja California or the Sea of Cortez. This is a 278-page paperback from Penguin.