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Language
English
Formats
Description
Just after the Iron Curtain fell on Eastern Europe, John Steinbeck and Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune. This rare opportunity took the famous travelers not only to Moscow and Stalingrad--now Volgograd--but through the countryside of the Ukraine and the Caucasus. Hailed by the New York Times as "superb" when it first appeared in 1948, this work is the distillation of their journey and remains a remarkable...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
10 CDs (11 hr., 45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1941, Steinbeck and his close friend Ed Ricketts, a marine biologist, rented a ship and set about exploring the Gulf of California. The scientific data collected, along with Steinbeck's log of the journey, were detailed in the work Sea of Cortez. Ten years later, the log was published on its own, chock-full of elegantly described marine life and often-amusing anecdotes about the adventure.
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 CD (30 min.) : digital audio ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in a remote village, this story documents traditional life among the native population and the conflict brought by outsiders who want to introduce modernization.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 170
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
990 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America volume 86
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[1996]
Physical Desc
1,067 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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