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In 1932, marine ecologist Ed Ricketts, with friends Jack and Sasha Calvin and mythologist Joseph Campbell, departed Puget Sound on board the Grampus for a journey up the Pacific Coast to Southeast Alaska. Ricketts crafted an essay on his "wave shock theory" during that ten-week trip that explored the impact of waves on coastal marine life. However, the essay and the Alaskan voyage were largely overshadowed by Ricketts’s California adventures. In Ed Ricketts: From Cannery Row to Sitka, Alaska, a fresh and compelling collection celebrating the life of this iconic scientist, editor and whale biologist Janice M. Straley writes poignantly of Ricketts’s influence on her own life and career.
With a foreword by Nancy Ricketts, Ed Rickett's daughter, and a preface by the editor, this unique collection includes works by researchers and scientists, with Ed Ricketts's breakthrough "Wave Shock Essay" the book's centerpiece. Ed Ricketts: From Cannery Row to Sitka, Alaska is beautifully designed by Carolyn Servid of Old Sitka Rocks Press, with additional illustrations by Sitka artist Norman Campbell that provide intimate visual renderings of Ricketts's passion: the diverse and bountiful inhabitants of the waters along the Pacific Coast. This edition was revised from an earlier edition by the same title, published by Shorefast Editions in 2015.
ISBN: 9780578682723
In 1932, marine ecologist Ed Ricketts, with friends Jack and Sasha Calvin and mythologist Joseph Campbell, departed Puget Sound on board the Grampus for a journey up the Pacific Coast to Southeast Alaska. Ricketts crafted an essay on his "wave shock theory" during that ten-week trip that explored the impact of waves on coastal marine life. However, the essay and the Alaskan voyage were largely overshadowed by Ricketts’s California adventures. In Ed Ricketts: From Cannery Row to Sitka, Alaska, a fresh and compelling collection celebrating the life of this iconic scientist, editor and whale biologist Janice M. Straley writes poignantly of Ricketts’s influence on her own life and career.
With a foreword by Nancy Ricketts, Ed Rickett's daughter, and a preface by the editor, this unique collection includes works by researchers and scientists, with Ed Ricketts's breakthrough "Wave Shock Essay" the book's centerpiece. Ed Ricketts: From Cannery Row to Sitka, Alaska is beautifully designed by Carolyn Servid of Old Sitka Rocks Press, with additional illustrations by Sitka artist Norman Campbell that provide intimate visual renderings of Ricketts's passion: the diverse and bountiful inhabitants of the waters along the Pacific Coast. This edition was revised from an earlier edition by the same title, published by Shorefast Editions in 2015.
ISBN: 9780578682723