The Pantheist Index

Steinbeck, John (1902 - 1968): Nobel Prize winning author who felt that most of the feelings we call religious are attempts to express our inextricable relation to all reality.

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• Edward F. Ricketts 1976 book by Richard Astro describes the marine biologist who was Steinbeck's companion on the Sea of Cortez expedition and became the model for "Doc" in "Cannery Row" and "Sweet Thursday".

• The Log from the Sea of Cortez Revue by Don Weiss of Steinbeck's account of the collecting trip he undertook with marine biologist Ed Ricketts in 1940.

• The Log from the Sea of Cortez - Introduction Written in 1995 by Richard Astro, background to the book and its themes which, in many ways, predate those of the modern environmental movement.