His childhood dream was rooted in Steinbeck’s Cannery Row. $7 million later, he owned a piece of it: the 1937 sardine boat that had plied the Sea of Cortez.
ED RICKETTS AND JOHN STEINBECK WERE, IN STEINBECK’S OWN WORDS, “OBVIOUSLY RIDICULOUS” WITH THEIR 1940 IDEA OF A SIX-WEEK-LONG EXPEDITION TO THE GULF OF CALIFORNIA. No wonder that when they