In America : travels with John Steinbeck

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Label

In America : travels with John Steinbeck

Title remainder

travels with John Steinbeck

Statement of responsibility

Geert Mak ; translated from the Dutch by Liz Waters

Creator

• Mak, Geert

Contributor

• Waters, Liz

Subject

• Mak, Geert -- Travel -- United States
• Social change -- United States
• Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968 -- Travel -- United States
• Travel and Tourism
• United States -- Description and travel
• United States -- Social conditions -- 1960-1980
• United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-

Language

• eng
• dut
• eng

Summary

In 1960 John Steinbeck and his dog Charley set out in their green GMC pickup truck to rediscover the soul of America, visiting small towns and cities from New York to New Orleans. The truck was named Rocinante after Don Quixote's horse, and Steinbeck was Cervantes' foolhardy knight. America was looking to the future, full of optimism and desperate to leave behind the troubles of the past; Steinbeck, great chronicler of the ordinary working man, was starting to feel out of touch. Half a century on, Geert Mak sets off from Steinbeck's home in his own Rocinante, with his wife and his sat-nav Sandy

Member of

• Reizen zonder John

Cataloging source

StDuBDS

Dewey number

• 917.304
• 917.304932

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography