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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 917.304927
EAN: 9780316353298
ISBN: 0316353299
Label: Back Bay Books
Manufacturer: Back Bay Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Date: October 19, 1999
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Studio: Back Bay Books

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  • Condition: New
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Amazon.com Review:
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.

Product Description:
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.



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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Blue Highways
Blue Highways is my favorite book and William Least Heat Moon is my favorite author. Need I say more? His trek around the country, in Blue Highways, is so fascinating. The most unfriendly people he met on his way live twenty miles from where I grew up!!!! If you get to Kewaunee, Wisconsin, though, be sure to go to this bakery because the kolaches are phenomenal. You will absolutely enjoy this book and it's a great summer read.



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - I don't regret for a minute paying full price....
I paid full price for "Blue Highways" at Harvard Book Store and I don't regret it for one minute.

I picked it up based on reviews I had read elsewhere. I didn't even think of Amazon when I went to look at it at the bookstore. I was just curious. It intrigued me immediately.

This simply may be one of the best books (of any genre) I have read in a very long time.

I'm not going to ramble on; there are 127 other reviews that you can read, but if you are thinking ... Read More



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - A great read.
If you like knowing about hidden towns and interesting folk in our great country, you will enjoy this book. William Least Heat-Moon engages you with humor and folksy people who are even pictured on the page. The trip by William Least Heat-Moon was taken in '78, but it still is a "great read."





Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Cassette? This is 2010. Where's the CD Version
I just want to say that this is my favorite book of all time. The writing of William Least-Heat Moon is filled with wonder. I give it a 10 out of 10!!!

However this is 2010 and I still find it strange that Audiobooks; for the most part are only available on Cassette. Heck, I don't even own a cassette machine anymore. I wish the companies would start putting these out on CD.

Steinbeck's Travels with Charley is available on CD. My second favorite book.

Again ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Road trip
Blue Highways. I loved this book. A journey around the small town's in America.




 

 

 

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