“As He Traveled, the Years Sloughed Off Him”
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 01.25.02 | 1:39 AM ET
The Atlantic Monthly online recently posted a number of original reviews of now classic books, including several essential travel titles. The critics’ takes on Mark Twain’s The Innocents Abroad and A Tramp Abroad are there, as are reviews of Jack Kerouac’s novel On the Road and John Steinbeck’s memoir Travels with Charley. Back in 1962, Steinbeck’s recollection drew high praise: “As he traveled, the years sloughed off him, and the eager, sensuous pages in which he writes about what he found and whom he encountered frame a picture of our human nature in the twentieth century which will not soon be surpassed.”