Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of Americas greatest writers and cultural figures. Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified.

OL23192W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 93.84 Pages 294 Ppi 386 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0553029665 ISIS Large Print, 1986 - Authors, American - 263 pages. Urn:lcp:travelswithchar000stei:epub:9db5aea2-9dcf-4ac6-b830-e86e16fb22da Extramarc The Indiana University Catalog Foldoutcount 0 Identifier travelswithchar000stei Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t6737v92n Isbn 9780140053203ħ9018785 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL2718931M Openlibrary_edition 'Pure delight, a pungent potpourri of places and people interspersed with bittersweet essays on everything from the emotional difficulties of growing old to the reasons why giant sequoias arouse such awe.' - The New York Times Book Review 'Profound, sympathetic, often angry.an honest moving book by one of our great writers.' - The San Francisco Examiner 'This is superior Steinbeck-a muscular, evocative report of a journey of rediscovery.' - John Barkham, Saturday Review Syndicate 'The eager, sensuous pages in which he writes about what he found and whom he encountered frame a picture of our human nature in the twentieth century which will not soon be surpassed.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 00:51:25 Boxid IA152401 Boxid_2 CH103001 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition repr. 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 strangers that is also a very real part of our national identity. 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. A quest across America, from the northernmost tip of Maine to California's Monterey Peninsula To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the tress, 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. Travels with Charley : in search of America Bookreader Item Preview.

Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck