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Title	:	Blue Highways (The Travel Trilogy #1)
Author	:	William Least Heat-Moon
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 428 pages
Published	:	October 19th 1999 by Back Bay Books (first published 1982)
Categories	:	Travel. Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Adventure. Biography. Biography Memoir. History

Blue Highways (The Travel Trilogy #1)

William Least Heat-Moon

Paperback | Pages: 428 pages

Rating: 4.01 | 20483 Users | 1094 Reviews

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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.

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Original Title:	Blue Highways: A Journey into America
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Travel Trilogy #1

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William is from my home state, traveled the outside of our country on only back roads in his beat up van, collecting experiences from random Americans. He works in a lot of history and either has the best ear for remembering dialogue or had a tape recorder well concealed. This is told factually, but fresh with interior dialogue, as he works his readings of Black Elk Speaks, Leaves of Grass and Lewis and Clark's account of their adventure. William only hints at what drove him to this three year

On the old highway maps of America, the main routes were red and the back roads blue. Now even the colors are changing. But in those brevities just before dawn and a little after dusk - times neither day nor night - the old roads return to the sky some of its color. Then, in truth, they carry a mysterious cast of blue, and it's that time when the pull of the blue highway is strongest, when the open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.(p 1)I love open road

Ugh...I didn't mind Into the Wild, and I couldn't make it through Zen & the Art....But when I think back, what I liked about ItW, the most, was when he was working in the fields in Idaho. And it was written by Krakauer -not first person.So, here's one of the other warhorses of the male-discovery-road-trip canon. In discussing reading this book with other people, one person pointed out that what makes for interesting discovery-road-trip writings are when the character is forced to set out

FRANKFORT is a tale of two cities. Once the citizens called it Franks Ford after Stephen Frank, a pioneer killed by Indians in 1780 near a shallow crossing in the Kentucky River..... A traveler coming from the west sees no hint of the town because the highway abruptly angles down a bluff into a deep, encircled river valley that conceals even the high dome of the capitol. If youre ever looking for the most hidden statehouse in America, look no further than Frankfort.Blue Highways is a 1979

Part poetry, part journalism, part travel-journal, made up of a person's desire to escape the present through a nostalgia for a past he thought he would find lurking in small, off-the-beaten-path towns, this is a gorgeous, extrospective (?) road trip book and introspective inner-journey book. Sometimes I thought of it as a much more layered, intelligent and respectful toward human beings "On The Road" and occasionally it got a little to close to "On The Road" for comfort in its objectifications

What a huge disappointment. I am predisposed to enjoy this kind of book. I love to travel and to take the roads less traveled. I've been to many places in America and I throughly enjoy exploring everywhere I haven't yet been. Back in High School, I would read Michael Crichton's Travels, some parts many times over, just imagining what it would be like to be able to visit the places he wrote about. Since then, I've read quite a few recollections of random journeys...and I can safely say that Blue

This was an interesting juxtaposition to Steinbeck's Travels with Charley: In Search of America which I also read recently. Similar trip, similar-ish accommodations (Steinbeck's was posher); Heat-Moon disparaged Steinbeck's book and while his trip might have been more genuine and more honest, I preferred Steinbeck's art. This was interesting enough, but it ended up as a nearly interminable series of undifferentiated stories in undifferentiated voices. It dragged.