Blue Highways

by Least Heat-Moon, William

• ISBN13: 9780395925027
• ISBN10: 0395925029
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-07-01
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Summary

William Least Heat-Moon's journey into America began with little more than the need to put home behind him. At a turning point in his life, he packed up a van he called Ghost Dancing and escaped out of himself and into the country. The people and places he discovered on his roundabout 13,000-mile trip down back roads ("blue highways") and through small, forgotten towns are unexpected, sometimes mysterious, and full of the spark and wonder of ordinary life. Robert Penn Warren said, "He has a genius for finding people who have not even found themselves." The power of Heat-Moon's writing and his delight in the overlooked and the unexamined capture a sense of our national destiny, the true American experience. (A Mariner Reissue)

Author Biography

William Least Heat-Moon was born of English-Irish-Osage ancestry in Kansas City, Missouri. He holds a doctorate in English and a bachelor's degree in photojournalism from the University of Missouri.

Table of Contents

One EASTWARD	1	(40)
Two EAST BY SOUTHEAST	41	(48)
Three SOUTH BY SOUTHEAST	89	(40)
Four SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST	129	(40)
Five WEST BY SOUTHWEST	169	(44)
Six WEST BY NORTHWEST	213	(34)
Seven NORTH BY NORTHWEST	247	(54)
Eight NORTH BY NORTHEAST	301	(40)
Nine EAST BY NORTHEAST	341	(60)
Ten WESTWARD	401	(12)
Map	413	(2)
Index of Towns and Cities	415	(6)
Acknowledgments	421