![]() ![]() To ensure his creature comforts on the journey, Steinbeck commissioned a tripped-out truck named "Rocinante" (a hat tip to Don Quixote, another man who was also arguably on a crazy mission), and took along his French poodle, Charley, for companionship. The result was the 1962 Travels with Charley: In Search of America. So, he decided to hit the road to check out what had been going on and what people were like these (er, those) days across the U.S. On horseback, by sea, on foot, through your computer monitor, feed your own curiousity and join Evliya and others on their journeys through these worlds.In 1960, Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck decided that it would be kind of hard to live up to his "Great American Author" title if he was totally out of touch with "today's" America (today for him, not today for us). The exchanges between the Ottomans and Europe have existed throughout the layers of history. The unstoppable desire to travel, learn and be curious has meant that communities from across the globe have from very early on been in constant conversation with Europe and its cities. Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci were both invited to design bridges to cross the Golden Horn in Istanbul.Christopher Wren was influenced by the design of the domes of churches and mosques in Istanbul when designing St. ![]()
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