I & Claudius: Travels with My Cat

By Clare de Vries

Book Overview

A woman and her cat set off on a bold and hilarious adventure across the USA. Clare de Vries dreamed of quitting her job and Thelma and Louise-ing it across the United States. Then one day, she did.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1582340544
• ISBN13: 9781582340548
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
• Length: 313 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.4" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

You'll laugh; you'll cry; you'll purr

Of course you will read all the other reviews here, and they are pretty right-on. Clare is a bit of a female Holden Caulfield; she is amusing and appealing while going through real trauma and not always behaving well. Unlike Holden of course, she is real and this is a true story. However, do not mistake "I & Claudius" for a how-to-travel-with-your-pet manual or a travel guide to the United States. This is HER story (and...

Edgy Brit with very cool cat drives the US of A

At age 28, journalist Clare de Vries of England decides her life needs shaking up, so she embarks on an auto tour of the United States with her pet Burmese cat of 19 years, "Claude". I & CLAUDIUS is their on-the-road story as they start out in Connecticut, then head south through New York, North Carolina, Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana, then west through Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and southern Nevada to the Pacific...

Clare Storms America

Clare De Vries - Intelligent, beautiful and just a little bit crazy.Claudius - Clare's alter ego. A wise old philosophising cat. One of the few sane males in the entire book and the only male that Clare loves unreservedly.Running away from her past (the death of her mother) and unwilling to face the future (the inevitable demise of her cat), Clare embarks upon a cathartic journey across America, accompanied by her old and...

Kudos for Clare and Claude!

What a wonderful idea and story... for the cat lover and for anyone who has ever dreamed of hitting the road just to "find themselves." Way to go, Clare and Claude, for having the nerve to do what the rest of us only dream about. Claude will be missed by those who knew him. I am glad his last days can now be shared with everyone in the world.

A Wild Ride Across America - Clare de Vries is Brilliant!

Clare is an enchanting woman and reflects it in her new novel! I and Claudius is a no-holds-barred look at America through the eyes of a gutsy Brit. This is a story of fun and high adventure. It is related by, perhaps, the most unlikely of chroniclers, and her (also most unlikely) cat. This is also a story of a young woman finding the path to her future, and excorcising the ghosts of the past. She is an inspiration...