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Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck

4.0

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In 1960, John Steinbeck and his poodle Charley traveled around the U.S. in his truck named Rocinante (named after Don Quixote's horse). What I found most fascinating was that many of the observations he made 48 years ago are still relevant today. For example, "The mountains of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use. In this, if in no other way, we can see the wild and reckless exuberance of our production, and waste seems to be the index. . . . I do wonder whether there will come a time when we can no longer afford our wastefulness--chemical wastes in the rivers, metal wastes everywhere, and atomic wastes buried deep in the earth or sunk in sea."