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Author Heat Moon, William Least.

Title Blue highways : a journey into America / William Least Heat-Moon ; photographs by the author ; with a new afterword by the author.

Edition First Back Bay paperback edition.
Publication Info. Boston : Back Bay Books, 1999.
1 hold on first copy returned of 1 copy
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1498080~S1
Location Call No. Status
 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  917.304927 HEA    DUE 05-04-24
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Description 429 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Note Originally published: Boston : Little, Brown, c1982.
Includes index.
Contents Eastward -- East by southeast -- South by southeast -- South by southwest -- West by southwest -- West by northwest -- North by northwest -- North by northeast -- East by northeast -- Westward.
Summary 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.
Subject United States -- Description and travel.
Heat Moon, William Least -- Travel.
Added Title Journey into America.
ISBN 0316353299 (pbk.)
9780316353298 (pbk.)
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SRP 2012
SRP 2012 X
August 20 2012
SRP 2012 REVIEW: This was an amazing novel--what a journey! Beautifully written, wonderfully and elegantly executed, it seemed to pay an undue respect to America, especially traveling America. Up there with Kerouac's On the Road, and Steinbeck's Travels with Charley.
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