![]() ![]() It was Mak’s audacious idea to retrace Steinbeck’s 1960 journey, and to examine it with fresh European eyes. Fifty years earlier, John Steinbeck, the author of The Grapes of Wrath and winner of the Nobel literature prize, had packed his poodle Charley into a converted camper van and rattled away from his Long Island home on a journey that resulted in Travels with Charley, one of his most popular books and a masterpiece of travel writing. In 2010, Mak headed to New York, with a plan to re-create one of the great road trips in American literary history. ![]() Sunday November 23 2014, 12.01am, The Sunday TimesĪFTER the international success of his epic In Europe: Travels Through the 20th Century (2007), it was almost inevitable that Geert Mak, the acclaimed Dutch historian and journalist, should turn his razor-sharp observational powers on another great continent struggling with 21st-century change. ![]()
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