Eric Enno Tamm's "Beyond the Outer Shores" is about Ed Ricketts, the model for Doc in this 1945 Steinbeck novel
In 1930, 
Steinbeck met Ed Ricketts, who became a .... Ricketts was Steinbeck's model for 
the character of Doc ..... 1: a review of Eric Enno Tamm, Beyond the Outer 
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