Beyond the outer shores: the untold odyssey of Ed Ricketts, the pioneering ecologist who inspired John Steinbeck and Joseph Campbell

In the 1930s, Ricketts was a lone, largely marginalized scientist--an outcast to academia with no university degrees, memberships or honors--and his pioneering ideas were at first dismissed by the scientific establishment. Today he's usually remembered as "Doc," the beer-drinking phil...

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1. Verfasser: Tamm, Eric Enno (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Four Walls Eight Windows 2004
Ausgabe:1st ed.
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Zusammenfassung:In the 1930s, Ricketts was a lone, largely marginalized scientist--an outcast to academia with no university degrees, memberships or honors--and his pioneering ideas were at first dismissed by the scientific establishment. Today he's usually remembered as "Doc," the beer-drinking philosopher-scientist in Steinbeck's Cannery Row, but Ricketts was actually a trailblazing ecologist who did seminal work in the emerging field on the Pacific Coast, and whose ideas, viewpoints and warnings remain timely sixty years later.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-350) and index
Beschreibung:xvi, 365 p. ill. 24 cm
ISBN:1568582986

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