Cup of Gold
Cup of Gold, Steinbeck's first novel, is published. The book concentrates on seventeenth-century pirate Henry Morgan's experiences in Panama. After two months, in October 1929, the U.S. securities exchange crashes, starting the Great Depression.
The Pastures of Heaven
The Pastures of Heaven is a collection of stories about the occupants of a rich valley in California, starting with the Spanish corporal who first discovers the "long valley stunned with a green field on which a crowd of deer scanned" and closing with the families living there amid the principal phases of the considerable gloom. The vast majority of the stories occur in 1928-1929, albeit numerous are established in flashbacks and accounts that traverse the eras…show more content… It points of interest a six-week (March 11 – April 20) marine example gathering boat endeavor he made in 1940 at different locales in the Gulf of California (otherwise called the Sea of Cortez), with his companion, the sea life scholar Ed Ricketts. The Log from the Sea of Cortez depicts a sea life science campaign did by John Steinbeck and his dear companion, Ed Ricketts, from March 11 to April 20, 1940. The campaign leaves Monterey Bay, California, goes down the shoreline of Baja California and into the Sea of Cortez, then returns along the same course. Marine species are gathered and recorded, alongside a log of whatever is experienced along the way, including perceptions of marine life, route, and climate, indigenous individuals possessed the zone and the exercises of the endeavor gathering and group. The Log additionally incorporates exchanges of reasoning, science, abstract existence, and man's place in nature, which reflect long-standing hobbies of Steinbeck and…show more content… The novel around a couple individuals stuck at a transport station between San Francisco and Los Angeles in post world war II America. Because of some mechanical issue with the transport, they're stuck for the night together with the transport driver, his wife, and two or three their workers. In the morning, they manage to continue their journey through bad weather ,terrible climate, and a detour route around a sensitive