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DESCRIPTION:EVENT - BEYOND THE OUTER SHORES  In the 1930s, while the Dust Bowl and the 
 Great Depression sent most of America into the doldrums, a lively 
 intellectual and artistic community formed in the West, revolving around 
 three legendary friends: Ed Ricketts, John Steinbeck, and Joseph Campbell. 
 Steinbeck immortalized Monterey's bohemian spirit in Cannery Row, a novel 
 that was inspired by his mentor and best friend, Ed Ricketts. Today, he's 
 usually remembered as "Doc"-the beer-drinking philosopher-scientist who 
 presides over Monterey's population of "whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons 
 of bitches" in Cannery Row.  Untold is the fact that Ricketts was actually 
 a trailblazing ecologist whose two books, Between Pacific Tides and Sea of 
 Cortez (coauthored with Steinbeck) are still considered classics. And 
 hardly a soul has any idea about Ricketts' enormous influence on Joseph 
 Campbell, the twentieth century's great mythologist. Author Eric Enno Tamm 
 will talk about this lone, largely marginalized scientist-an outcast to 
 academia with no university degrees, memberships or honors. Some sixty 
 years after his untimely death, Ed Ricketts' ecological approach and ethic 
 are more relevant than ever to a generation now waking to full 
 environmental consciousness. Although this odyssey ends in unspeakable 
 tragedy, the lessons learned as you travel alongside Ed Ricketts are life 
 affirming nonetheless.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/06/03/40323.php
SUMMARY:Author event: "Beyond the Outer Shores - the Untold Odyssey of Ed Ricketts, the
LOCATION:51 Tamal Vista Boulevard, Corte Madera  tel: (415) 927-0960  
 http://www.bookpassage.com
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/06/03/40323.php
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