The collaboration of two friends-one a novelist, one a novelist, one a marine biologist-produced a volume in which fascinating popular science is woven into a narrative of man's dreams, his ideals, and his accomplishments through the centuries. Sea of Cortez is one of those rare books that are all things to all readers. Actually the record of a brief collecting expedition in the lonely GUlf of California, it will be science to the scientist, philosophy to the philosopher, and to the average man an adventure in living and thinking. Sea of Cortez is a book to be read and remembered on two levels. It is a journey through a remote and beautiful corner of the world, a diary filled with the daily excitements and triumphs of skillful and energetic men. It is also an invitation to see the world anew from a fresh vantage point and perhaps with a broader and more understanding spirit. The Log from the Sea of Cortez is a more complete edition of the 1941 book Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research.
The Log from the Sea of Cortez -
John Steinbeck
Penguin Books
2009
320 páginas
10h 40m
ISBN-13: 9780140187441
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John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr.
John Ernst Steinbeck é um dos principais escritores norte-americanos. Prêmio Nobel de Literatura de 1962, destaca-se pelos temas proletários e pelo uso de qualidades arquetípicas em seus personagens, combinando humor e uma aguda percepção social. As suas obras principais são <i>A Pérola</i> (The Pearl, 1945), <i>A Leste do Éden</i> (East of Eden, 1952) e <i>As Vinhas da Ira</i> (The Grapes of Wrath, 1939), considerada sua obra-prima e vencedora do Prêmio Pulitzer de 1940. Steinbeck alcançou também grande sucesso como roteirista, tendo sido indicado em 1944 ao Óscar de melhor roteiro pelo filme <i>Lifeboat</i> de Alfred Hitchcock.
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