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This is a reading guide and activity packet for reading from travels with charley by john steinbeck. Steinbeck wrote that he was moved by a desire to see his country on a personal level, since he made his living writing about it. The truth about travels with charley bill steigerwald. Having read lots of steinbeck s work as a teenager, i recently heard about travels with charley from a bookworm friend, 30 years on. In search of america is a travelogue of a coasttocoast road trip he took across the united states in 1960, in a camper truck, with his standard poodle charley. Not the first time steinbeck is in e legallybut still progress. After his experiences in the eastern part of the country, steinbeck finds more reason to hope as he travels through the beautiful. He is widely known for the comic novels tortilla flat 1935 and cannery row 1945, the multigeneration epic east of eden 1952, and the novellas of mice and men 1937 and the red pony 1937. Travels with charley in search of america book summary.