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Travels with Charley: In Search of America - A quest across America, from the northernmost tip of Maine to Californias Monterey Peninsula To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the trees, to see the colors and the lightthese 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.


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⚡️Book Title : Travels with Charley: In Search of America
⚡Book Author : John Steinbeck
⚡Page : 214 pages
⚡Published February 5th 2002 by Penguin (first published 1962)

Travels with Charley: In Search of America

A quest across America, from the northernmost tip of Maine to Californias Monterey Peninsula To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the trees, to see the colors and the lightthese 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.