Blue Highways: A Journey Into America
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Heat Moon, William Least, PUBLISHER: Back Bay Books, Hailed as a masterpiece ong>ofong> American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads. William Least Heat-Moon set out with little more than ong>theong> need to put home behind him and a sense ong>ofong> curiosity about "those little towns that get on ong>theong> map-if ong>theong>y 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 ong>adventuresong>, his discoveries, and his recollections ong>ofong> ong>theong> extraordinary people he encountered along ong>theong> way amount to a revelation ong>ofong> ong>theong> true American experience.