Full name: Blue Highways: A Journey Into America

Author: William Least Heat-Moon Year: 1982 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Travel, Non Fiction, Adventure, Memoirs, History Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon Google Books eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780316353298

Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads. William Least Heat-Moon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about "those little towns that get on the map-if they get on at all-only because some cartographer has a blank space to fill: Remote, Oregon; Simplicity, Virginia; New Freedom, Pennsylvania; New Hope, Tennessee; Why, Arizona; Whynot, Mississippi." His adventures, his discoveries, and his recollections of the extraordinary people he encountered along the way amount to a revelation of the true American experience. This book is part of the "The Travel Trilogy" series. Here are some other books from this series: "River-Horse" First published in 1999 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "PrairyErth" First published in 1991 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: Similar books: River-Horse by William Least Heat-Moon On the Road with Charles Kuralt by Charles Kuralt Roads to Quoz by William Least Heat-Moon Around the World in 50 Years by Albert Podell The Lost Continent by Bill Bryson Kite Strings of the Southern Cross by Laurie Gough Deep South by Paul Theroux Roads by Larry McMurtry Stranger on a Train by Jenny Diski Educating Alice by Alice Steinbach Narrow Dog to Indian River by Terry Darlington New Roadside America by Doug Kirby A Year in the World by Frances Mayes Almost Heaven by Martin Fletcher Tales of a Female Nomad by Rita Golden Gelman PrairyErth by William Least Heat-Moon Alive by Piers Paul Read South by Ernest Shackleton Passage to Juneau by Jonathan Raban On the Trail of Genghis Khan by Tim Cope