The Log from the Sea of Cortez

Author: John Steinbeck

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SKU: 9780141186078

In 1940, John Steinbeck set out on an expedition with his friend Ed Ricketts, the biologist on whom he based the character of Doc in Cannery Row. Taking a sardine boat, Western Flyer, out of Monterey, California, they embarked on a 4,000-mile trip into the Sea of Cortez that combined the scientific collection and observation of marine life with high adventure, philosophy, ethics and art. The log of this journey gives a much rounder picture of Steinbeck – and h is beliefs about man and the world – than any of his fictional works. This edition also contains Steinbeck's affectionate portrait of his friend, 'About Ed Ricketts'.

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A Russian Journal

By John Steinbeck

A classic work of reportage from John Steinbeck and famed war photojournalist Robert Capa.

Just as the Iron Curtain fell on Eastern Europe, Steinbeck and Capa began a remarkable journey through the Soviet Union. Their travels took them to Moscow and Stalingrad – now Volgograd – and the countryside of the Ukraine and the Caucasus. What they saw and movingly recorded was what Steinbeck called...

A classic work of reportage from John Steinbeck and famed war photojournalist Robert Capa.

Just as the Iron Curtain fell on Eastern Europe, Steinbeck and Capa began a remarkable journey through the Soviet...

Published: 09/07/2001

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780141186337

RRP: $35.00

The Wayward Bus

By John Steinbeck

A bus travels through the backroads of the lush Californian countryside, transporting the lost and the lonely to new destinations. Juan Chicoy is at the wheel, a man of the land, hot-blooded and uninhibited. His passengers include Ernest, a travelling salesman out for fun, seventeen-year-old Kit, also known as Pimples, and Camille the stripper who dances at stag nights and takes star-struck young Norma...

Published: 02/05/2001

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780141186115

RRP: $26.95

The Grapes of Wrath

By John Steinbeck

Shocking and controversial when it was first published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer prize-winning epic, The Grapes of Wrath, remains his undisputed masterpiece. Set against the background of Dust Bowl Oklahoma and Californian migrant life, it tells of the Joad family, who, like thousands of others, are forced to travel west in search of the promised land.

Published: 23/10/2000

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780141185064

RRP: $19.95

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Of Mice And Men: Pocket Penguin Classics

By John Steinbeck

Streetwise George and his big, childlike friend Lennie are drifters, searching for work in the fields and valleys of California. They have nothing except the clothes on their back, and a hope that one day they ll find a place of their own and live the American dream. But dreams come at a price. Gentle giant Lennie doesn t know his own strength, and when they find work at a ranch he gets into trouble...

Published: 06/03/2006

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780141023571

RRP: $12.95

Of Mice and Men: Popular Penguins

By John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men is one of the best loved novellas of all time. Two drifters - small, shrewd George and huge, simple-minded Lennie - get work on a ranch, planning to raise enough money to get a place of their own and live off the land, if George can save his childlike, bull-strong friend from getting into trouble. A powerfully moving story of friendship, Of Mice and Men is a simply...

Published: 01/09/2008

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780141038421

RRP: $9.95

Cannery Row: Popular Penguins

By John Steinbeck

In the din and stink that is Cannery Row a colourful blend of misfits – gamblers, whores, drunks, bums, and artists – survive side by side in a jumble of adventure and mischief. Doc, who owns the laboratory, is the fount of all generosity and wisdom. Everybody wants to do something nice for Doc: the trouble is, he always ends up paying. Packed with invention and joie de vivre, Cannery Row...

In the din and stink that is Cannery Row a colourful blend of misfits – gamblers, whores, drunks, bums, and artists – survive side by side in a jumble of adventure and mischief. Doc, who owns...

Published: 29/06/2009

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780141045399

RRP: $9.95

The Pearl: Popular Penguins

By John Steinbeck

When Kino, an Indian pearl-diver, finds 'the Pearl of the world' he believes that his life will be magically transformed.

Published: 29/08/2011

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780143566410

RRP: $9.95

The Wayward Bus

By John Steinbeck

Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America's greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year, his many works, beginning with the six shown here, will be published as black-spine Penguin Classics for the first time and will feature eye-catching, newly commissioned art.

Of this initial group of six titles, The Wayward Bus is in a new...

Published: 20/07/2006

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780142437872

RRP: $9.95