Blue Highways: A Journey into America

ISBN-13:	9780316353298
Publisher:	Little, Brown and Company
Publication date:	10/19/1999
Edition description:	1ST BACK B
Pages:	448
Sales rank:	76,875
Product dimensions:	5.54(w) x 8.24(h) x 1.14(d)
Lexile:	980L (what's this?)

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.