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| Title | : | Blue Highways (The Travel Trilogy #1) |
| Author | : | William Least Heat-Moon |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special 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 |
William Least Heat-Moon
Paperback | Pages: 428 pages Rating: 4.01 | 20483 Users | 1094 Reviews
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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.
Details Books In Favor Of Blue Highways (The Travel Trilogy #1)
| Original Title: | Blue Highways: A Journey into America |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Travel Trilogy #1 |
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Ratings: 4.01 From 20483 Users | 1094 ReviewsRate Containing Books Blue Highways (The Travel Trilogy #1)
William is from my home state, traveled the outside of our country on only back roads in his beat up van, collecting experiences from random Americans. He works in a lot of history and either has the best ear for remembering dialogue or had a tape recorder well concealed. This is told factually, but fresh with interior dialogue, as he works his readings of Black Elk Speaks, Leaves of Grass and Lewis and Clark's account of their adventure. William only hints at what drove him to this three yearUgh...I didn't mind Into the Wild, and I couldn't make it through Zen & the Art....But when I think back, what I liked about ItW, the most, was when he was working in the fields in Idaho. And it was written by Krakauer -not first person.So, here's one of the other warhorses of the male-discovery-road-trip canon. In discussing reading this book with other people, one person pointed out that what makes for interesting discovery-road-trip writings are when the character is forced to set out
Author Bill Trogden/Least Heat-Moon travels across America in the 1980s, travelling via the highways marked in blue on the map. These smaller roards take him into out-of-the way communities far away from the interstates. This is a really fascinating read, giving you a look at bits and pieces of America from North to South and East to West. I imagine much of it has since vanished. The travelogue is skillfully interspersed with Trogden's own personal struggles: he decides to take the trip because
A nice bit of writing. A journey down the secondary highways and byways of the United States in (and this is important)1978. It immediately reminded me of John Steinbecks book Travels with Charley: In Search of America in which that author made a similar trip in 1960, so it didnt surprise me when Least Heat-Moon later referred to it as one of his inspirations. No dog in this one. He is not quite, in my opinion, up to John Steinbecks level but that doesnt mean the writing here isnt terrific. It
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
How disappointed I was, on driving across the country on the interstates (by necessity) that my trip was nothing like this one. To take a trip on blue highways still remains an ambition of mine.R
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