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Blue Highways: A Journey into America (1982)

by William Least Heat-Moon

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This was my first foray into Heat-Moon and such an enjoyable trip I decided to go for another with him. ( )
  MSarki | Mar 31, 2013 |
Rated: A+ ( )
  jmcdbooks | Jan 28, 2013 |
A journey across America and the people seen there. Also a journey into the author's life and how he deals with it. A book worth re-reading ( )
  oldman | Jan 19, 2013 |
One of the classic American travel books that I somehow missed when it was written 25 years ago. Very glad I finally stumbled upon it. ( )
  co_coyote | Dec 24, 2012 |
Wiliam Least Heat-Moon traveled across the U. S. by boat from the Atlantic Ocean near New York City to Astoria, Oregon. ( )
  ElRemaro | Jul 26, 2012 |
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[William Least] Heat Moon climbed into his Econoline van and drove 12,000 miles down the back roads of America — and recorded it all in this big, richly detailed book. ... Heat Moon writes from the perspective of "a contaminated man who will be trusted by neither red nor white." His Indian mind feels an especially violent antipathy to the wasteland of ecocidal capitalism, but his white mind knows how tenuous his red roots are. ... An immensely appealing performance.
added by Roycrofter | editKirkus Reviews (Dec 8, 1982)
 
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Camp, Maion Op den—secondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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Blue Highways: A Journey into America
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This book is for the wife of the Chief and for the Chieftain too. In love.
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Beware thoughts that come in the night.
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Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0316353299, Paperback)

First published in 1982, William Least Heat-Moon's account of his journey along the back roads of the United States (marked with the color blue on old highway maps) has become something of a classic. When he loses his job and his wife on the same cold February day, he is struck by inspiration: "A man who couldn't make things go right could at least go. He could quit trying to get out of the way of life. Chuck routine. Live the real jeopardy of circumstance. It was a question of dignity."

Driving cross-country in a van named Ghost Dancing, Heat-Moon (the name the Sioux give to the moon of midsummer nights) meets up with all manner of folk, from a man in Grayville, Illinois, "whose cap told me what fertilizer he used" to Scott Chisholm, "a Canadian citizen ... [who] had lived in this country longer than in Canada and liked the United States but wouldn't admit it for fear of having to pay off bets he made years earlier when he first 'came over' that the U.S. is a place no Canadian could ever love." Accompanied by his photographs, Heat-Moon's literary portraits of ordinary Americans should not be merely read, but savored.

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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.… (more)

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