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Travels with Charley in Search of America

Written by: John Steinbeck
Narrated by: Gary Sinise
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 An intimate journey across America, as told by one of its most beloved writers

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. Adventure Travel Americas Art & Literature Authors Classics Travel Writing & Commentary United States Adventure Nonfiction

What the critics say

“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.” Edward Weeks, The Atlantic Monthly

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I so love his skill with words. listening to this account of America circa 1960 it struck me that while so much has changed.... very little has changed.

Gary Sinise does the work justice.

you simply cannot go wrong with Steinbeck.

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Highlights the importance of speaking to strangers, an art form lost on so many in these times.

incredible narration

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loved it. I am an adventurer and would love to travel slowly around here and there with my three wee dogs in a little A model motor home. I knew I would enjoy thus book. I guess I will just have to keep dreaming at this stage of my life.

This book keeps you listening for more.

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How could you not feel your right there with Charlie on this whole trip. Loved every minute.

Of course one of best

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Beautifully written and insightful
Plenty of humorous moments. His view on development interesting given the time it was written

Entertaining and insightful

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