At an age when most men are content to simply remember the past, John Steinbeck set off on a remarkable journey across America. Ultimately it took him through almost forty states: from Long Island to Maine, through the Middle West to Chicago, onward by way of Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana and Idaho to Seattle, south to San Francisco and his birthplace, Salinas, eastward to new mexico, Arizona and Texas, on to New Orleans, Alabama, Virginia, Pennsylvania and finally to New Jersey and New York. His account of this extraordinary odyssey is one of the most profound and revealing documents of our time.
[This text is listed as an example that meets Common Core Standards in English language arts in grades 6-8 at http://www.corestandards.org.]
