| Blue Highways: A Journey Into America Contributor(s): Heat Moon, William Least (Author), McKibben, Bill (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0316353299 ISBN-13: 9780316353298 Publisher: Back Bay Books
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback Published: October 1999 Annotation: 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. |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Travel | Essays & Travelogues - Travel | United States - General - Travel | Food, Lodging & Transportation - Road Travel |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 00265444 |
| Lexile Measure: 980(Not Available) |
| Physical Information: 1.19" H x 5.52" W x 8.24" L (0.89 lbs) 448 pages |
| Features: Ikids, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Price on Product, Table of Contents |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 76240 Reading Level: 6.4 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 27.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |
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