num_pages: 428
description: 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.
language: English
title: Blue Highways
titlecomplete: Blue Highways
genres: American, Americana, Biography, Travel, Autobiography, Nonfiction, Adventure, History, Memoir, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 23636
series: The Travel Trilogy
publisher: Back Bay Books