Exploring Steinbeck’s Journey to the Sea of Cortez: 80 Years Later
For a good portion of quarantine, I’ve had John Steinbeck on the brain. This spring marks 80 years since the author and eventual Nobel Prize winner embarked on a six-week expedition, chartering a sardine boat in Monterey, California and sailing around Mexico’s Baja Peninsula to explore the Sea of Cortez. The trip, which took place fresh off his success fromThe Grapes of Wrath, would inspire two later Steinbeck works:The Pearl(fiction) andThe Log from the Sea of Cortez(nonfiction).
