It is a unique American travelogue and brings John Steinbeck into close relationship with his readers. And at last after the long trek, in the specially built truck with a miniature ship's cabin aboard and with Charley, his French, he came home to New York only to lose himself in his own city. He the melodrama that distorted the South in the desegregation crisis. He sensed the state of mind that is Texas. To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the trees. And he reflects on the American character, racial hostility, on a particular form of American loneliness he finds almost everywhere, and on the unexpected kindness of. An intimate journey across America, as told by one of its most beloved writers. He learned that there were still areas that held their character and fell in love with Montana. 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. He found to his sorrow that folk ways and folk speech were lost in the uniformity imposed by today's channels of communication. Steinbeck wrote that he was moved by a desire to see his country on a personal level because he made his living writing. It depicts a 1960 road trip around the United States made by Steinbeck, in the company of his standard poodle Charley. But most of all he learned a good many of the basic values that make Americans American. Travels with Charley: In Search of America is a 1962 travelogue written by American author John Steinbeck. Something as well of the wealth of its agricultural reaches, and the mystery of its deserts. But in the quest through 40 states, John Steinberg learned something of the vast changes that have come over his country, something of its, its variety, its magic and the ugliness of its towns and cities.
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