Blue Highways

by William Least Heat-Moon

• ISBN13: 9780316353953
• ISBN10: 0316353957
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2012-04-03
• Publisher: Hachette

Summary

Published in 1983 to phenomenal reviews, Blue Highways: A Journey into America became a cult classic on par with Jack Kerouac's On the Road and John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley. In this highly acclaimed, bestselling memoir, a 38-year-old laid-off college professor of Sioux and white blood drives around the U.S. on the "blue highways, " the rural back made that are colored blue on old maps. The places he discovers during his 13,000-mile journey are unexpected, sometimes mysterious, and often full of simply the wonder of the ordinary.-- Blue Highways received extraordinary reviews when it was first published: -- The current trade paperback edition (Houghton Mifflin) sells 25,000 copies a year but will be out of print by August 1999.-- Heat Moon's long-awaited next book, River-Horse, will be out in September and will draw much attention to this important author. it will be supported by a 14-city author tour, national advertising, holiday catalogs, and NPR sponsorship.-- This edition of Blue Highways will include a new introduction by the author.

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

Eastward	p. 1
East by Southeast	p. 41
South by Southeast	p. 89
South by Southwest	p. 129
West by Southwest	p. 169
West by Northwest	p. 213
North by Northwest	p. 247
North by Northeast	p. 301
East by Northeast	p. 341
Westward	p. 401
Map	p. 413
Afterword	p. 415
Index of Towns and Cities	p. 423
Acknowledgments	p. 429
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