Travels with Charley in search of America

In 1960, when he was almost 60 years old, Pulitzer Prize winner and Nobel laureate John Steinbeck set out to rediscover his native land. Accompanied only by a French poodle named Charley, he traveled the length and 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 California and attended a modern witches' sabbath in New Orleans. He saw things which stirred his anger and things which made him swell with pride. This is his account of that extraordinary odyssey.