Blue Highways: A Journey Into America
by Least Heat-Moon, William
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- ISBN 10
- 0316353957
- ISBN 13
- 9780316353953
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About This Item
Sixth Printing. Book 1 of 3: Travel Trilogy. Ex-library book has usual markings, stamps, stickers, writing, card holder. DJ has some bumping, rubbing, little tears on the top, spine, edges, corners. Outer page edges with tanning, browning, stains and foxing. 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. " 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. 1982. A4.
Synopsis
Blue Highways is an autobiographical book by William Least Heat-Moon, born William Trogdon. In 1978, after separating from his wife and losing his job as a teacher, Moon, 38 at the time, decided to take an extended road trip around the United States, sticking to only the "Blue Highways," a term he coins to refer to small, forgotten, out of the way roads connecting rural America (which were drawn in blue on the old style Rand McNally road atlas).
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- Better Bindings (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 298
- Title
- Blue Highways: A Journey Into America
- Author
- Least Heat-Moon, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- ISBN 10
- 0316353957
- ISBN 13
- 9780316353953
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Company
- Place of Publication
- US
- Date Published
- 1982
- Pages
- 421
- Size
- 6.5 x 1.25 x 9.5 inches
- Keywords
- Fiction.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Ex-library;
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