Blue Highways

A Journey into America The Travel Trilogy, #1

by William Least Heat-Moon

448 pages

English language

Published Aug. 7, 1999 by Little Brown & Company.

ISBN:: 978-0-316-35391-5

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.

Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads.

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.

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Stalwart reviewed Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon (The Travel Trilogy, #1)

Review of 'Blue Highways' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

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.