Travels with Charlie Author:John Steinbeck In 1960, when he was almost 60 years old, John Steinbeck set out to rediscover his native land. Accompanied only by a French poodle named Charlie, he traveled the length and the breadth of the United States. He outfought a hurricane in New York and drank cognac in Maine with a family of migrant farm workers. He renewed old acquaintances in Calif... more »ornia and attended a modern witches' sabbath in New Orleans. He saw things that stirred his anger and things that made him swell with pride. "Profound, sympathetic, often angry... An honest, moving book by one of our great writers."« less