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Title	:	Blue Highways (The Travel Trilogy #1)
Author	:	William Least Heat-Moon
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary 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

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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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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

I came across this on goodreads,and given my fondness for travel books,and the positive reviews,bought it.I was under the impression that I was in for a treat,as this is supposedly a travel classic.I was in for a disappointment.It is dull and dry.It is over 400 pages,and I have just made it to 150.It is quite a slog.Will update the review,if I ever manage to finish it.One thing is for sure,William Least-Heat Moon (the author),is no Bill Bryson or Michael Palin.

The writer as traveler. Bigger and better than Steinbecks Travels with Charlie (and I liked that quite a bit.)Its rural America of the late 70s, and speaking as someone has lived through it, Least Heat-Moon nails it. There were lots of great tales and only a couple of weak spots. Recommended to anyone who ever wanted to pick a direction and road trip.

Here is a summary of the book so far: Least-Moon travels the back roads in his Wagoneer to a small town in the middle of nowhere, such as "Nameless, Tennessee." Then, you wade through much detailed description of the man-made and natural structures. Next, he meets a local, asking about the history of the town. A long, very specific re-telling of some minor player in American history ensues, ending with "Then, the government [or national chain] came in and took all the land. Things ain't like the

Another travelog. A little slow and quite serious. Yet I learned a few things and found myself consulting goodgle maps to locate some of the more interesting small towns he encountered. But it took me a long time to finish it. I could only handle a half dozen pages at one sitting. I like travelogs, but I prefer Bill Bryson's books because I can breeze through them as if I were reading a 'beach book' with interesting information and a bunch of belly laughs to boot. No one does it better than

I started this book about a month ago and tried to fit it into a hectic schedule. This weekend I decided to give it a serious go and see where it would end up.The author decided to do a circle route of America when his life was destined to fall apart. He lost his job and his marriage was in trouble. Broke both in wallet and heart, he started putting together the trip he wanted to do for several years. He always wondered whether he could cross the United States by auto without ever using a