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Breaking through : essays, journals, and travelogues of Edward F. Ricketts
- Title
- Breaking through : essays, journals, and travelogues of Edward F. Ricketts / edited by Katharine A. Rodger ; foreword by Susan F. Beegel.
- Author
- Ricketts, Edward Flanders, 1897-1948.
- Publication
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2006], ©2006.
- Supplementary Content
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- Additional Authors
- Rodger, Katharine A. (Katharine Anne), 1974-
- Description
- xix, 348 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Trailblazing marine biologist, visionary conservationist, and deep ecology philosopher Edward F. Ricketts (1897-1948) has reached legendary status in the California mythos. A true polymath and a thinker ahead of his time, Ricketts was a scientist who worked in passionate collaboration with many of his friends - artists, writers, and influential intellectual figures - including, perhaps most famously, John Steinbeck, who once said that Rickett's mind "had no horizons." This collection, featuring previously unpublished pieces as well as others available for the first time in their original form, reflects the wide scope of Rickett's scientific, philosophical, and literary interests during the years he lived and worked on Cannery Row in Monterey, California."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-345) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Foreword to the 1925 Pacific Biological Laboratories catalog -- 2. "Zoological introduction" to Between Pacific tides -- 3. "The philosophy of 'Breaking through'" -- 4. "A spiritual morphology of poetry" -- 5. "Essay on non-teleological thinking" -- 6. "Verbatim transcription of notes of Gulf of California trip, March-April 1940" -- 7. "Thesis and materials for a script on Mexico" -- 8. "Outline and conspectus" for a book on the mandated islands -- 9. "Transcript of summer 1945 and 1946 notes based on trips to the outer shores, west coast of Vancouver Island, Queen Charlotte Islands, and so on" -- 10. "Investigator blames industry, nature for shortage" -- Living at the lab with my father : memoir / Ed Ricketts, Jr. -- Early days : nicknames and such : memoir / Nancy Ricketts.
- ISBN
- 0520247043 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005023240
- 9780520247048
- OCLC
- OCM61278512
- SCSB-5252247
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries