[FRIAM] Into the Great Wide Ocean

[steve smith]

On 1/20/25 3:11 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote:
>
> Who of you has recommended "Beyond the Outer Shores: The Untold 
> Odyssey of Ed Ricketts, the Pioneering Ecologist who Inspired John 
> Steinbeck and Joseph Campbell" in the last years? If I recall 
> correctly it was Eric. I like the book. Since then I am looking for 
> good books which are similar. '
>
I don't remember if I specifically recommended it in this forum but I 
have read it and do often recommend it.

I'm not sure which values of "similar" move you, but by extension, 
reading Steinbeck's "/Log of the Sea of Cortez/" is quite apt and 
expands one's appreciation for Ricketts.

Ian Frasiers "/Siberia/" comes to mind as does anything of Barry Lopez 
(/Arctic Dreams/ in particular)

Rachel Carson's 1951 "/under the Sea/" (author of /Silent Spring/) and 
1955 "The Edge of the Sea"...

I recently finished Colin Fletcher's "/The Man Who Walked Through 
Time/", an account of his traversal of the Grand Canyon in the 1950s.

"/Goodbye to a River/" is a 1960 memoir by**John Graves of his 175 mile 
trip down the Brazos river in TX on the cusp of various dam constructions.

And then there is Ed Abbey.


Thanks for the reference to Sonke' Johnsen's work...

>
> Currently I'm reading in the Libby app which allows me to read books 
> from the library online "Into the Great Wide Ocean: Life in the Least 
> Known Habitat on Earth" by Sönke Johnsen. Did you know that many 
> living beings in the open ocean are transparent unlike the animals in 
> coastal waters? Sönke describes how they find food to eat and avoid 
> being eaten
>
> https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691181745/into-the-great-wide-ocean
>
>
> -J.
>
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