Full name: In America: Travels With John Steinbeck

Author: Geert Mak Year: 2012 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, History, Travel Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781448139682 9781846557033 1448139686 1846557038

In 1960 John Steinbeck and his dog Charley set out in their green pickup truck to rediscover the soul of America, visiting small towns and cities from New York to New Orleans.The trip became Travels With Charley, one of his best-loved books. Half a century on, Geert Mak sets off from Steinbeck's home. Mile after mile, as he retraces Steinbeck's footsteps through the potato fields of Maine to the endless prairies of the Midwest and stumbles across glistening suburbs and boarded-up stores, Mak searches for the roots of America and what remains of the world Steinbeck describes. How has America changed in the last fifty years; what remains of the American dream; and what do Europe and America now have in common? Similar books: Inside U.S.A by John Gunther The Majic Bus by Douglas Brinkley Almost Heaven by Martin Fletcher Long Way Home by Bill Barich In Europe by Geert Mak Amsterdam by Geert Mak An Island in Time by Geert Mak A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World by Tony Horwitz Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane Cities of Gold by Douglas Preston South with Endurance by Frank Hurley Foreign Devils on the Silk Road by Peter Hopkirk The Fourth Part of the World by Toby Lester Amsterdam by Russell Shorto A Traveller in Rome by H. V. Morton Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress by Jan Morris Pax Britannica by Jan Morris The Discovery of France by Graham Robb Venice by Thomas F. Madden The Miracle of Castel di Sangro by Joe McGinniss