In 1940 Steinbeck sailed in a sardine boat with his great friend the marine biologist, Ed Ricketts, to collect marine invertebrates from the beaches of the Gulf of California. The expedition was described by the two men in "Sea Of Cortez", published in 1941. The day-to-day story of the trip is told here in the Log, which combines science, philosophy and high-spirited adventure....(展开全部)

Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America’s greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year, his many works published as black-spine Penguin Classics for the first time and will feature eye-catching, newly commissioned art. Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation of read...(展开全部)

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 ...(展开全部)

史坦貝克 美國作家，曾獲得1962年諾貝爾文學獎。作品多描寫大蕭條時期的平民階級及移民工人的生活，他的作品裡經常出現在生活中掙扎的人物，被認為是受了自然主義文學的影響。他的故事和人物都是來自20世紀上半葉時真正存在的歷史環境和事件。他的小說反映了他廣泛的興趣，比如海洋生物學，爵士樂，政治，哲學，歷史和神話。其主要小說代表作有《人鼠之間》（1937）、《憤怒的葡萄》（1939）、《罐頭廠街》（1945）以及《伊甸園東》（1952）等。另著有非虛構作品《史坦貝克俄羅斯紀行》（1948）、《查理與我》（1962）等。 立克茨 海洋生物學家，成立「太平洋生物實驗室」（Pacific Biological Laboratories, Inc.），經常為美國多所大專院校及頗具規模的研究機構提供海洋動物標本，對美國西岸潮間帶生態研究有著重大貢獻。在1930到194...(展开全部)

modern-day classic. "Gift from the Sea is like a shell itself in its small and perfect form . . . It tells of light and life and love and the security that lies at the heart."--New York Times Book Review.

In this inimitable, beloved classic—graceful, lucid and lyrical—Anne Morrow Lindbergh shares her meditations on youth and age; love and marriage; peace, solitude and contentment as she set them down during a brief vacation by the sea. Drawing inspiration from the shells on the shore, Lindbergh’s musings on the shape of a woman’s life bring new understanding to both men and wome...(展开全部)

Over a quarter of a century after its first publication, the great and simple wisdom in this book continues to influence women's lives. From the Hardcover edition.

Over a quarter of a century after its first publication, the great and simple wisdom in this book continues to influence women's lives. From the Hardcover edition.

modern-day classic. "Gift from the Sea is like a shell itself in its small and perfect form . . . It tells of light and life and love and the security that lies at the heart."--New York Times Book Review.

In this inimitable, beloved classic—graceful, lucid and lyrical—Anne Morrow Lindbergh shares her meditations on youth and age; love and marriage; peace, solitude and contentment as she set them down during a brief vacation by the sea. Drawing inspiration from the shells on the shore, Lindbergh’s musings on the shape of a woman’s life bring new understanding to both men and wome...(展开全部)