Steinbeck crosses America with a dog

Author: Steinbeck
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: This is a journey across the United States, a colorful scroll of American life, and a humorously and thoughtfully observant view of modern civilization by a literary master. At the age of 58, Nobel Prize-winning American author Steinbeck took his beloved French poodle "Charlie" and drove a custom-built truck named "Nancy Rooster," the same name as Don Quixote's horse, embarking on a cross-country journey. What did he encounter along the way? Steinbeck's Journey Across America with His Dog records the remarkable feat of the Nobel Prize-winning American author Steinbeck at the age of 58. That year, Steinbeck, driven by a strong urge to rediscover America and its people, took his beloved French poodle Charlie and set off on a cross-country journey in a custom-built truck named Nancy Rooster, the same name as Don Quixote's horse. Steinbeck observed America and its people with a humorous yet skeptical gaze, seeing a beautiful, prosperous, and contented nation that was also extremely wasteful, empty, and fraught with various crises. Steinbeck's Journey Across America with His Dog is a captivating travelogue that, along with Steinbeck's other travel masterpiece, has long attracted worldwide attention since its publication and has been translated into multiple languages, selling worldwide. This book is a travelogue. It features the author's unique experiences crossing the United States, descriptions of various natural and social landscapes such as forests, grasslands, deserts, highways, rural areas, and churches, as well as his complex insights into American society in the tumultuous early 1960s.