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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 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. Editor and whale biologist Janice M. Straley, writes poignantly of Ricketts's influence on her own life and career. Her revised edition of Ed Ricketts: From Cannery Row to Sitka, Alaska is a fresh and compelling collection celebrating the life of this iconic scientist.
Appearing again in this revised edition, Ricketts's "Wave Shock Essay" illustrates his work and quest for answers to countless marine biology questions. A preface and foreword expand this edition, along with a new essay on the creation of the classic marine biology text Between Pacific Tides by Ricketts and Jack Calvin. Works by the original researchers and scientists remain, some of them updated or slightly revised. Additional illustrations by Norman Campbell provide beautiful visual renderings of Ricketts's passion: the diverse and bountiful inhabitants of the waters along the Pacific Coast.
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 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. Editor and whale biologist Janice M. Straley, writes poignantly of Ricketts's influence on her own life and career. Her revised edition of Ed Ricketts: From Cannery Row to Sitka, Alaska is a fresh and compelling collection celebrating the life of this iconic scientist.
Appearing again in this revised edition, Ricketts's "Wave Shock Essay" illustrates his work and quest for answers to countless marine biology questions. A preface and foreword expand this edition, along with a new essay on the creation of the classic marine biology text Between Pacific Tides by Ricketts and Jack Calvin. Works by the original researchers and scientists remain, some of them updated or slightly revised. Additional illustrations by Norman Campbell provide beautiful visual renderings of Ricketts's passion: the diverse and bountiful inhabitants of the waters along the Pacific Coast.
ISBN: 9780578682723