A story that began with American novelist John Steinbeck and his best friend, marine biologist Edward Ricketts, in 1940 has found its way from the Pacific Northwest coast to the forests of Kentucky.
Steinbeck and Ricketts spent six and a half weeks that year aboard a leased 1930s fishing vessel called the Western Flyer while on an ecology study of the Sea of Cortez between the Baja Peninsula and the Mexican mainland. Their nonfiction books about the expedition, The Sea of Cortez, and later Log from the Sea of Cortez, have slept most of their shelf lives in the shadows of Steinbeck’s giant classics, Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men and other works of Pulitzer and Nobel acclaim.
But back to the Western Flyer.
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