Eric Enno Tamm's "Beyond the Outer Shores" is about Ed Ricketts, the model for Doc in this 1945 Steinbeck novel
Beyond the Outer Shores: The Untold Odyssey of Ed Ricketts, the Pioneering
... [DOC] [TLE]   "Sweet Thursday"     ... [PAR] But if I ever come across the guy that wrote that book I could tell him a few things.