Travels with Charley: In Search of America

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by John Steinbeck

A quest across America, from the northernmost tip of Maine to California’s Monterey Peninsula

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Description

To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the trees, to see the colors and the light—these were John Steinbeck’s goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover the country he had been writing about for so many years.

With Charley, his French poodle, Steinbeck drives the interstates and the country roads, dines with truckers, encounters bears at Yellowstone and old friends in San Francisco. Along the way he reflects on the American character, racial hostility, the particular form of American loneliness he finds almost everywhere, and the unexpected kindness of strangers.

Additional information

Book Condition

Used – Okay

Cover

Paperback

Size

Length: 238 pages

Published

1976 by Pan
First published in 1961

Genre

Nonfiction, Biography, Classics, Memoir

Awards

Long Island Reads (2005)