For the To Be Read pile...

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I'm ashamed to admit I've never read The Log From the Sea of Cortez, although I have read a good many other Steinbeck books. Steinbeck's good friend Ed Ricketts wrote the main text for my Intertidal Invertebrates course in college, Between Pacific Tides. Ricketts was also the inspiration for Doc in Cannery Row. This article reminds me I need to get a copy of The Log...

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-steinbeck16jun16.story
Sea Change Since Era of Steinbeck - Retracing the author's 1940 voyage to Mexico, a group of enthusiasts finds a vastly different marine environment.

Suprisingly, in some places, it's better than it was more than 60 years ago.