On 10/25/19 1:21 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote: > I've read Cannery Row and liked it. I like the books from Steinbeck in > general. What is the name of the biography from the Doc? "Beyond the > Outer Shores" ? Is it recommendable?
Very... https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/401670.Beyond_the_Outer_Shores > > -Jochen > > > > Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Steven A Smith <sasm...@swcp.com> > Date: 10/25/19 16:53 (GMT+01:00) > To: friam@redfish.com > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] John Steinbeck in the 21st century > > ...On a recent pleasure/work trip I *re*visited Monterrey CA and > Cannery Row which lead me to *re*read Steinbeck's Cannery Row which > lead me to read something of a biography of the Doc character in his > novel (and the movie) for whom the prototype was Ed Ricketts... > > Beyond the Outer Shores was written roughly 15 years ago, recounting > Ricketts' life and career. I knew that Steinbeck was a good friend of > Ricketts but I was not aware of how much work they did together, > including a summer of kayaking in the Sea of Cortez which yielded the > data for the book they co-authored by the name "Sea of Cortez". I > was also unaware that Joseph Campbell spent his formative (adult) > years in the company of both of these mens (and more to the point, > Ricketts). The author of this biography credits Ricketts as being > highly influential in the work of both Steinbeck (beyond Cannery Row) > and Campbell, and credits him with leading the transition from > traditional biology focused on taxonomic approaches to identification > of collected specimens. Ricketts approached collecting and > identifying (mostly marine) species as well as writing them up in his > famous trilogy on the topic in the context of a newly emergent field > of "ecology". He was simultaneously under-appreciated due to his > lack of formal education, his lack of academic affiliation whilst also > being a highly prolific commercial collector/supplier of specimens to > the same community while identifying a huge number of new species > (perhaps only recognizing the subtle differences based on habitat and > foodweb relations) within his purview (the range of the Pacific coast > along the North American coast from Bering Sea to Panama). > > On 10/23/19 3:39 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote: >> I recently stumbled upon John Steinbeck's classic novel "The Grapes >> of Wrath" and wonder if it is similar to the situation today. You >> will all know it since it is often read in High Schools, right? (I >> had to read Goethe in School. And "Animal Farm" plus "To kill a >> Mocking Bird" in the English class). >> >> As you know Steinbeck describes how migrants from Oklahoma called >> Okies look for a better life in California. They travel along the >> Route 66, which Steinbeck helped to make popular, passed Albuquerque >> and Santa Fe, and drove to the West until they arrived in California >> where the locals disliked and rejected them. >> https://www.nationalgeographic.org/news/grapes-wrath >> >> Today we have migrants from Cuba and Mexico looking for a better life >> in the US and refugees from Syria and Afghanistan who cause a lot of >> trouble in the EU. Many of these refugees and migrants live in camps, >> just like the ones Steinbeck visited. >> https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/feb/02/johnsteinbeck.socialsciences >> >> Steinbeck's novel takes place during the "Dust Bowl". Today the dry >> regions in the South suffer from droughts and wild fires caused by >> Climate Change worldwide. Everything sounds similar, as if history is >> repeating itself. >> https://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-dust-bowl >> >> -J. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
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