August 20, 2014
This week, as summer comes to a close, we celebrate the great American vacation pastime of road trips. Included are books on travel and exploration of the United States, including trips of self discovery and resolution.
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Kindle Edition $7.01 – Travels with Charley – In September 1960, John Steinbeck embarked on a journey across America. He felt that he might have lost touch with the country, with its speech, the smell of its grass and trees, its color and quality of light, the pulse of its people. To reassure himself, he set out on a voyage of rediscovery of the American identity, accompanied by a distinguished French poodle named Charley; and riding in a three-quarter-ton pickup truck named Rocinante.
His course took him through almost forty states: northward from Long Island to Maine; through the Midwest to Chicago; onward by way of…
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