The History of John Steinbeck's
Old Ocean View Avenue
by Michael Kenneth Hemp
See
Cannery Row as it really was
through archive photos
of professional Monterey
photographers.
This book
also serves as an indispensable
companion
reference to all of John Steinbeck's
Cannery Row
literature: "Cannery Row" (1945),
"Sweet Thursday" (1954), and
"Log From The
Sea of Cortez" (1951).
124
archival
photos from the Pat Hathaway Historical Photo Collection of California
Views
illustrate the evolution of the Monterey
Peninsula from its earliest inhabitants to
the
socio-economic disaster following the
disappearance
of the once "inexhaustible"
supply of
sardines.
Find the
real
"Old Row" and Steinbeck literary
sites in today's busy tourist district.
With this
book's complete and accurate site
index
and detailed map of Cannery Row's
historic
district, you can locate historic and
Steinbeck sites, many of which appear in the
124 archival
photos in the book. The
authoritative
information in this unique history and
guidebook are
the result of over six years of
intense oral histories conducted in the 1980s
by researcher
and author Michael K. Hemp with
the Row's surviving cannery workers,
business
people, friends and relatives of John
Steinbeck and his closest friend and mentor,
pioneering
marine biologist Ed "Doc" Ricketts.
*
Deluxe Soft Cover, 128 pages, 124 archive
photos
* Dimensions (in inches): 0.25 x 11.00 x
8.5
* Publisher: The
History Company; 1st Edition edition, 2nd printing (January 2003)
* ISBN: 0941425002
$19.95
(Cannery Row Book)
$4.00
(U.S. Shipping &
handling)
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