Name: Por el mar de Cortés (in Spanish)
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Author: John Steinbeck
ISBN: 9788499425979

portada Por el mar de Cortés (in Spanish)

Type

Physical Book

Author

John Steinbeck

Publisher

Austral

Collection

Contemporánea

Year

2017

Language

Spanish

Pages

240

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.00 x 12.50

ISBN13

9788499425979

Edited in

España

Synopsis "Por el mar de Cortés (in Spanish)"

«Sus límites, un barco y un mar; su duración, seis semanas; su objetivo, todo lo que podamos ver, pensar e incluso imaginar; sus términos, nosotros mismos, sin reserva«Sus límites, un barco y un mar; su duración, seis semanas; su objetivo, todo lo que podamos ver, pensar e incluso imaginar; sus términos, nosotros mismos, sin reserva.»En marzo de 1940, John Steinbeck y su amigo el biólogo marino Ed Doc Ricketts se embarcaron en un viaje que llevaban tiempo soñando con hacer juntos. Mientras en Europa la guerra amenazaba con hacerse mundial, Steinbeck y Ricketts recorrieron durante seis semanas, en un pequeño barco sardinero llamado Western Flyer, más de cuatro mil millas: desde la bahía de Monterrey hacia el sur, bordeando la península de Baja California, hasta adentrarse en el entonces casi inexplorado mar de Cortés.El diario de a bordo narra su memorable encuentro con el golfo de California: deslumbrado por la belleza y la prodigalidad del entorno, John Steinbeck escribió uno de los libros más emotivos sobre el mar y más respetuosos con la naturaleza, a medio camino entre la crónica de viaje, la revelación científica y la exaltación de los silencios y las riquezas del universo marino.

John Steinbeck

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John Steinbeck (1902- 1968) was born in Salinas, California. He studied at Stanford University and during his youth worked as a laborer and fruit picker. His first success was Tortilla Flat (1935), a story between picaresque and romantic about Mexican immigrants settled around Monterey (California). In 1936, he wrote a series of seven reports for The San Francisco News, which he later published as The Harvest Gypsies. In 1939, his most famous work appeared: The Grapes of Wrath (Pulitzer Prize 1940), which tells the sad story of a family from the impoverished state of Oklahoma that migrates to California during the economic depression of the thirties; this work, received as a moving document of social protest, was adapted into a film by John Ford in 1940. Among his extensive literary work are also the novels Of Mice and Men (1936), The Pearl (1947) and East of Eden (1962), and screenplays for movies, such as the one he wrote for Viva Zapata! by Elia Kazan. In 1962, Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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