448 pages
English language
Published Aug. 7, 1999 by Little Brown & Company.
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.
No matter where you go, there you are. But the people are different.
He visits places in the USA that I've never heard of, tells a brief version of their story.
Just towards the end I started realizing some of the themes he'd been working on the whole time.
Now will have to re-read just to finish uncovering them.
