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Author Ricketts, Edward Flanders, 1897-1948

Title Breaking through : essays, journals, and travelogues of Edward F. Ricketts / edited by Katharine A. Rodger ; foreword by Susan F. Beegel
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 348 pages) : illustrations
Contents Forward to the 1925 Pacific Biological Laboratories Catalog -- "Zoological introduction" To Between Pacific Tides -- "The philosophy of 'breaking through'" -- "A spiritual morphology of poetry" -- "Essay on non-teleological thinking" -- "Verbatim transcription of notes of Gulf of California trip, March-April 1940" -- "Thesis and materials for a script on Mexico" -- "Outline and conspectus" for a book on the Mandated Islands -- "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" -- "Investigator blames industry, nature for shortage."
Summary This unprecedented collection, featuring previously unpublished pieces as well as others for the first time in their original from, reflects the wide scope of Ricketts's scientific philosophical, and literary interests during the years he lived and worked on Cannery Row in Monterey, California
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-345) and index
Notes English
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Subject Ricketts, Edward Flanders, 1897-1948 -- Travel -- Mexico -- California, Gulf of
SUBJECT Ricketts, Edward Flanders, 1897-1948 fast
Subject Marine invertebrates -- Pacific Coast (U.S.)
Marine invertebrates -- Mexico -- California, Gulf of
Teleology.
NATURE -- Animals -- Marine Life.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Marine Biology.
NATURE -- Ecology.
Marine invertebrates
Teleology
Travel
SUBJECT Pacific Coast (U.S.) -- Description and travel
California, Gulf of (Mexico) -- Description and travel
Subject Pacific Ocean -- Gulf of California
United States -- Pacific Coast
Form Electronic book
Author Rodger, Katharine A. (Katharine Anne), 1974-
ISBN 9780520932661
0520932668
142378961X
9781423789611
1601293879
9781601293879
9786612358999
6612358998