Breaking Through: Essays, Journals, and Travelogues of Edward F. Ricketts
Trailblazing marine biologist, visionary conservationist, deep ecology philosopher, Edward F. Ricketts (1897-1948) has reached legendary status in the California mythos. A true polymath and a thinker ahead of his time, Ricketts was a scientist who worked in passionate collaboration with many of his friends—artists, writers, and influential intellectual figures—including, perhaps most famously, John Steinbeck, who once said that Ricketts's mind "had no horizons." This unprecedented collection,...
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"To have begun to know Ed Ricketts even a little—whether as the satyr-god of Cannery Row, pioneering ecologist and marine biologist, magical Steinbeck character, co-author of a classic 'voyage of discovery,' or legendary friend and mentor of the great—is to want to know more."—From the foreword by Susan F. Beegel, editor of The Hemingway Review"This biography and collection is invaluable for those seeking to understand all about Ed Ricketts, not as Steinbeck's "Doc," but as the complex, visionary thinker and scientist that he was. Rodger gives us Ricketts's seminal writings, some for the first time in print, that reveal his lifelong struggle to come to grips with the complexities of marine ecology at all levels. Today's researchers would do well to try and grasp his prescient, holistic ideas about the universal connections linking organisms, species, communities, and their environment."—William F. Gilly, Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University
Acknowledgments Foreword Editor's NoteIntroduction1. Foreword to the 1925 Pacific Biological Laboratories Catalog2. "Zoological Introduction" to Between Pacific Tides3. The Philosophy of "Breaking Through"4. A Spiritual Morphology of Poetry5. Essay on Non-teleological Thinking6. Verbatim Transcription of Notes of Gulf of California Trip7. Thesis and Materials for a Script on Mexico8. "Outline and Conspectus" for a Book on the Mandated Islands9. Transcript of Summer 1945 and 1946 Notes Based on Trips to the Outer Shores10. Investigator Blames Industry, Nature for Shortage EpilogueLiving at the Lab with My Father Memoir by Ed Ricketts Jr.Early Days: Nicknames and Such Memoir by Nancy Ricketts Works Cited Index
