Blue Highways: A Journey into America

About this book

Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nations 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.