Cannery Row: The History of John Steinbeck's Old Ocean View Avenue- Photography from the Pat Hathaway Historical Photo Collection - Softcover

Hemp, Michael Kenneth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0941425010 ISBN 13: 9780941425018

Publisher: The History Company, 2003

Synopsis

The evolution of Monterey history from its Spanish colonial origins to its rise to become "Sardine Capital of the World"—and the stage upon which Pulitzer and Nobel winner, John Steinbeck, set "Cannery Row" and "Sweet Thursday"—is illustrated with 178 archival photographs from the Hathaway Collection.

This new Second Edition features state-of-the-art "stochastic" (random dot) imaging and printing technology to bring dramitic clarity and detail to its digitially restored photography. The photos in this book illustrate the evolution of Monterey history, the fishing and canning industries, the processes and working conditions in Monterey's world famous sardine trade. They also show in accurate detail the actual locations used by John Steinbeck in his Cannery Row fiction.

The book contains a detailed, indexed historical map to the Row's canneries and literary sites, a full text index, a research bibiolgraphy, recommended website resources, and a special family album of marine biologist, Edward F. Ricketts.

About this title

About the Author:

Born and raised in Berkeley, California, and a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, the author has seen old Cannery Row through thousands of eyes over his twenty years of direct oral and archival historical research of the magical place Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winning author, John Steinbeck, made world famous.

This book represents a summary glimpse of a life work of extensive oral history interviews with cannery workers, skippers, fishermen, residents and working people on old Ocean View Avenue, who worked its fishing and canning industries and knew Ed Ricketts and John Steinbeck. The photogrpahy in this book vividly illustrates the informaiton, understanding and appreciation of Cannery Row history, the basis of John Steinbeck's "Cannery Row," and Ed Ricketts' underlying conservation lesson for the new centruy.

Review:

"This is fabulous. Just a wonderful book."

--Mae Waldroup, Thunderbird Books, Carmel -- Carmel Pinecone, 02/07/02

Michael keeps history and lore alive through his photo-laden book, "Cannery Row: The History of Old Ocean View Avenue." -- Monterey County Herald (feature), Friday, April 18, 2003

The history of Cannery Row is too rich to enhance, but Michael Hemp has done the next best thing. -- Salinas Californian (feature), Saturday, February 8, 2003

About this edition

• Publisher: The History Company
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0941425010
• ISBN 13: 9780941425018
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 128