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 fr.
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
