Blue Highways: A Journey Into America

Title: Blue Highways: A Journey Into America
Author: William Least Heat Moon
ISBN: 9780316353298
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: 1999
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Edition Unstated
Number of Pages: 448
Section: Travel | Essays & Travelogues
Publisher Description: 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.