{"product_id":"blue-highways-revisited-volume-1-9780826219695","title":"BLUE HIGHWAYS Revisited (Volume 1)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1978  William Least Heat-Moon made a 14 000-mile journey on the back roads of America  visiting 38 states along the way. In 1982  the popular Blue Highways  which chronicled his adventures  was published. Three decades later  Edgar Ailor III and his son  Edgar IV  retraced and photographed Heat-Moons route  culminating in Blue Highways Revisited  released for publication on the thirtieth anniversary of Blue Highways. A foreword by Heat-Moon notes  \"The photographs  often with amazing accuracy  capture my verbal images and the spirit of the book. Taking the journey again through these pictures  I have been intrigued and even somewhat reassured that America is changing not quite so fast as we often believe. The photographs  happily  reveal a recognizable continuity  but for how much longer who can say  and Im glad the Ailors have recorded so many places and people from Blue Highways while they are yet with us.\"  Through illustrative photography and text  Ailor and his son capture once more the local color and beauty of the back roads  cafes  taverns  and people of Heat-Moons original trek. Almost every photograph in Blue Highways Revisited is referenced to a page in the original work. With side-by-side photographic comparisons of eleven of Heat-Moons characters  this new volume reflects upon and develops the memoir of Heat-Moons cross-country study of American culture and spirit. Photographs of Heat-Moons logbook entries  original manuscript pages  Olympia typewriter  Ford van  and other artifacts also give readers insight into Heat-Moons approach to his trip. Discussions with Heat-Moon about these archival images provide the reader insight into the travels and the writing of Blue Highways that only the perspective of the author could provide.  Blue Highways Revisited reaffirms that the \"blue highway\" serves as a romantic symbol of the free and restless American spirit  as the Ailors lose themselves to the open road as Heat-Moon did thirty years previously. This book reminds readers of the insatiable attraction of the blue highwayBut in those brevities just before dawn and a little after dusktimes neither day or nightthe old roads return to the sky some of its color. Then  in truth  they carry a mysterious cast of blue  and its 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 (Introduction to Blue Highways).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651735248949,"sku":"ByrdShop_0826219691","price":52.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780826219695.jpg?v=1781838691","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/blue-highways-revisited-volume-1-9780826219695","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}