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The Log from the Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck · Audiobook preview

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PURCHASE ON GOOGLE PLAY BOOKS ►► https://g.co/booksYT/AQAAAAADQR5BDM The Log from the Sea of Cortez Authored by John Steinbeck Narrated by Joe Barrett 0:00 Intro 0:03 Copyright 0:51 Introduction 9:49 Chapter 1 12:12 Outro #johnsteinbeck #thelogfromtheseaofcortez — GOOGLE PLAY BOOKS Find your next great read with Google Play Books. Google Play Books is a global digital bookstore offering ebooks, audiobooks, comics, and manga. Discover book recommendations personalized just for you. Get the iOS app: https://goo.gle/books-ios Get the Android app: https://goo.gle/books-android — BOOK DESCRIPTION This exciting day-by-day account of Steinbeck's trip to the Gulf of California with biologist Ed Ricketts, drawn from the longer Sea of Cortez, is a wonderful combination of science, philosophy, and high-spirited adventure. — ABOUT THE AUTHOR John Steinbeck, born in Salinas, California, in 1902, grew up in a fertile agricultural valley, about 25 miles from the Pacific Coast. Both the valley and the coast would serve as settings for some of his best fiction. In 1919 he went to Stanford University, where he intermittently enrolled in literature and writing courses until he left in 1925 without taking a degree. During the next five years he supported himself as a laborer and journalist in New York City, all the time working on his first novel, Cup of Gold (1929). After marriage and a move to Pacific Grove, he published two California books, The Pastures of Heaven (1932) and To a God Unknown (1933), and worked on short stories later collected in The Long Valley (1938). Popular success and financial security came only with Tortilla Flat (1935), stories about Monterey’s paisanos. A ceaseless experimenter throughout his career, Steinbeck changed courses regularly. Three powerful novels of the late 1930s focused on the California… — AUDIOBOOK DETAILS Purchase on Google Play Books ►► https://g.co/booksYT/AQAAAAADQR5BDM Language: English Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Published on: June 1, 2012 ISBN: 9781101592908 Duration: 11 hr, 47 min Genres: Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures, Science / Life Sciences / Marine Biology, Travel / Essays & Travelogues

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