Blue Highways : A Journey into America

English

ISBN: 0316353299

EAN: 9780316353298

Category: Travel / United States / General

Publisher: Little Brown & Company

Release Date: 01/08/2013

Synopsis: First published in 1982, William Least Heat-Moons account of his journey along the back roads of the United States (marked with the color blue on old highway maps) has become something of a classic. When he loses his job and his wife on the same cold February day, he is struck by inspiration: A man who couldnt make things go right could at least go. He could quit trying to get out of the way of life. Chuck routine. Live the real jeopardy of circumstance. It was a question of dignity.Driving cross-country in a van named Ghost Dancing, Heat-Moon (the name the Sioux give to the moon of midsummer nights) meets up with all manner of folk, from a man in Grayville, Illinois, whose cap told me what fertilizer he used to Scott Chisholm, a Canadian citizen ... [who] had lived in this country longer than in Canada and liked the United States but wouldnt admit it for fear of having to pay off bets he made years earlier when he first came over that the U.S. is a place no Canadian could ever love. Accompanied by his photographs, Heat-Moons literary portraits of ordinary Americans should not be merely read, but savored.

Blue Highways : A Journey into America

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Paperback

Height: 1.25 inches

Width: 5.5 inches

Length: 8.25 inches

Weight: 14.6 oz

Pages: 448