Beyond the Outer Shores : The Untold Odyssey of Ed Ricketts, the Pioneering Ecologist Who Inspired John Steinbeck and Joseph Campbell (Paperback)

from juniperSun

The untold life of Ed Ricketts remains largely untold after this book. Heard as an audiobook, it is difficult to assign percentages, but my feeling is that more of the book was spent on John Steinbeck than on Ed. What does emerge, though, is a profile of a dedicated researcher who loved the wilde...

from BeaverMeyer

For a better biography, read "About Ed Ricketts," an essay by John Steinbeck. This book is impersonal, written by a fellow who never new the man and the myth. He seems to have heard about Ed through Steinbeck and dug up some extraneous information about him. Steinbeck's essay is all you need.

from WinstonDog

5 stars are for the books that change the way I look at everyday life. I read from the library but will buy this book for my shelf. Ed Ricketts was the most interesting person in J Steinbeck's books and I always wanted to know more about him. I loved the way the story moved in time back and forth...

from WinstonDog

5 stars are for the books that change the way I look at everyday life. I read from the library but will buy this book for my shelf. Ed Ricketts was the most interesting person in J Steinbeck's books and I always wanted to know more about him. I loved the way the story moved in time back and forth...