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With Ed Ricketts, Carol, and a crew of men, Steinbeck writes the narrative for the six weeks doing marine exploration in the Gulf of California—the Sea of Cortez. Fascinated by Mexico and its people, Steinbeck later goes to Mexico to film his movie The Forgotten Village.
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Within the primary text of The Sea of Cortez, Steinbeck at times included extensive passages from Ricketts’ two unpublished essays, “The Philosophy of Breaking Through” and “A Spiritual Morphology of Poetry” (Astro “Introduction” xxv).
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Wagner-Martin, L. (2017). The Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research. In: John Steinbeck. Literary Lives. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55382-9_5
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