Travels with Charley in Search of America: (Centennial Edition)
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183 Reviews
| From: Amazon Posted: Jul 02, 2008 Type: User Review |
can't get much better than a Steinbeck
Steinbeck's Travels with Charley was his last book I believe. This is a memoir of John Steinbeck's drive from Long Island, New York to the tip of Maine to California and back to Long Island. Of course it's well written, as you'd expect from any...
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 4.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 29, 2008 Type: User Review |
State of the Nation
In Travels with Charley, Steinbeck is on a journey to discover if he still knows the country he memorializes in almost all of his other works. Steinbeck manages to express in this memoir of his journey through America a whole host of emotions that...
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 5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 02, 2008 Type: User Review |
Spending time with Steinbeck
TRAVELS WITH CHARLEY gives us a chance to move to an up-close-and-personal position with the aloof, John Steinbeck, At the age of 60 in the fall of 1960. Steinbeck acquired a primitive pickup-style recreational vehicle, packed up a few belongings,...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Mar 17, 2008 Type: User Review |
Love for your country
In this book, John Steinbeck shows patriotism at its best. He travels through the United States, and experiences all the beauties of this nation in a marvellous way. He shows no arrogance as he appreciates his homeland. Instead, he shows this...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jan 26, 2008 Type: User Review |
"I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger."
(4.5 stars) When John Steinbeck obeys a life-long urge to drive from coast to coast in 1960, he little anticipates the variety of the "American experience." Beginning in Maine and traveling along the northern states through Wisconsin, the...
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Nov 01, 2007 Type: User Review |
One of the Best Travel Books Ever Written
I just finished the book and it was a fantastic read. It was a fairly "light" book, considering the author; it was genuinely hilarious at times, and, as always, Steinbeck created an incredibly vivid, personal, and accurate portrait of the...
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Oct 31, 2007 Type: User Review |
delightful classic steinbeck
traveling across america in 1960 with a man and his dog. awww, for the wanderlust in all of us and too live it via john steinbeck. each turn more exciting than the other......yet was 3 months enough time? i think not!
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| From: Amazon Posted: Sep 27, 2007 Type: User Review |
Travels With Charley
A wonderful read..a glimpse of America through the eyes of Steinbeck while driving his pick-up/camper with his dog.
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Sep 10, 2007 Type: User Review |
the hobo philosopher
Travels with Charley was one of the inspirational books that lead me to write "Hobo-ing America". I had always read travel books. Everybody from Mark Twain to George Orwell. But Travels with Charley (his dog) ranks right up there in the...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Aug 06, 2007 Type: User Review |
"From start to finish, I found no strangers"
In the autumn of 1960, author John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968) felt that he was writing on the fumes of experience. That and the wanderlust that usually passes with youth still itched at age 58. He bought a camper truck he christened "Rocinante"...
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