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 Charley, he traveled the length and breadth of the United States. This is his account of that trip, with stories of how he outfought a hurricane in New York, drank cognac in Maine with a family of migrant farm workers, renewed old acquaintances in California, and attended a modern witches' sabbath in New Orleans.

Translation of = Titulo original: Travels with Charley.