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Travels with Charley in Search of America (1962)

de John Steinbeck

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Biography & Autobiography. History. Travel. Nonfiction. HTML: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 strange
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    The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America de Bill Bryson (John_Vaughan)
  2. 30
    The Log from the Sea of Cortez de John Steinbeck (John_Vaughan)
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    No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters de Ursula K. Le Guin (andomck)
    andomck: Non fiction from these novelists where their pets play a large role. Also, UKL has an essay in her book about knowing Steinbeck in real life
  4. 11
    Blue Highways: A Journey into America de William Least Heat-Moon (usnmm2)
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    Of Men and Their Making de John Steinbeck (Booksloth)
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    Coast to Coast de Jan Morris (John_Vaughan)
    John_Vaughan: Two authors with different backgrounds but both books filled with love of travel and America.
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    Tagebuch, später (edition suhrkamp) de Andrzej Stasiuk (Philosofiction)
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Steinbeck’s book-length account of his journey, “Travels With Charley: In Search of America,” published in 1962, was generally well reviewed and became a best-seller. It remains in print, regarded by some as a classic of American travel writing. Almost from the beginning, though, a few readers pointed out that many of the conversations in the book had a stagey, wooden quality, not unlike the dialogue in Steinbeck’s fiction.

Early on in the book, for example, Steinbeck has a New England farmer talking in folksy terms about Nikita S. Khrushchev’s shoe-pounding (or -brandishing, depending on whom you ask) speech at the United Nations weeks before Khrushchev actually visited the United Nations. A particularly unlikely encounter occurs at a campsite near Alice, N.D., where a Shakespearean actor, mistaking Steinbeck for a fellow thespian, greets him with a sweeping bow, saying, “I see you are of the profession,” and then proceeds to talk about John Gielgud.

Even Steinbeck’s son John said he was convinced that his father never talked to many of the people he wrote about, and added, “He just sat in his camper and wrote all that [expletive].”
 

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John Steinbeckautor primaritotes les edicionscalculat
Álvarez Flórez, José ManuelTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Bianciardi, LucianoTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Duvivier, M.M.Traductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Farber, PaulFotògrafautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Foerster, IrisTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Foerster, Rolf HellmutTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Freeman, DonAutor de la cobertaautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Fritz-Crone, PelleTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Haff, KristenDissenyador de la cobertaautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Herman, Rein F.Traductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Parini, JayIntroduccióautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
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No newspaper had printed the words these women shouted. It was indicated that they were indelicate, some even said obscene...But now I heard the words, bestial and filthy and degenerate. In a long and unprotected life I have seen and heard the vomitings of demoniac humans before. Why then did these screams fill me with a shocked and sickened sorrow?
For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?
When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked.
Who has not known a journey to be over and dead before the traveler returns? The reverse is also true: many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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Biography & Autobiography. History. Travel. Nonfiction. HTML: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 strange

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