The Western Flyer: Steinbeck’s Boat, the Sea of Cortez, and the Saga of the Pacific Fisheries
Readers of John Steinbeck’s The Log of the Sea of Cortez will certainly recognize the Western Flyer as the boat that Steinbeck and his friend, the marine biologist Ed Ricketts, hired in 1940 to take them to the Sea of Cortez (the body of water...