Smithsonian Magazine - 10.2019

(Romina) #1

A LEGENDARY WRITER, A QUIRKY


SCIENTIST AND AN EPIC OCEAN VOYAGE


THAT WOULD REWRITE THE RULES OF ECOLOGY


Novelist John
Steinbeck, left,
and marine
biologist Ed
Ricketts co-au-
thored a beloved
book after their
1940 adventure
aboard the
Western Flyer, a
fi shing boat now
being restored.

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