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Blue Highways (The Travel Trilogy #1)

by William Least Heat Moon

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A book that describes Heat-Moon's 13,000 mile journey exploring the backroads of the United States.

Paperback, 421 pages

Published October 1st 1991 by Mariner Books (first published 1982)

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Jan 19, 2012 Evan rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: adventure-truelife, travel, history-americana, native-american, bohemian-rhapsodies, 2012-reads, evans-alternative-100, better-than-the-crap-youre-reading, favorites, my-faves

I feel awfully guilty not taking the time to give back to this book what it gave to me; its carefully shaped and caressed words of observation and wisdom. It deserves much more, but, like Heat-Moon, I am on my own journey right now, writing my own inner book. In it, he sets out in a spartan van named "Ghost Dancing," roughly following the "blue highways" (the most rural of rural roads) along the entire border of the Lower 48 to discover himself, the country, or, whatever, after losing his job an...more

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Jun 22, 2007 Jason Pettus rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: nonfiction, memoir, travel, classic, personal-favorite

the classic hippie travel tale of a shrinking rural america, far from feeling dated blue highways seems to become more and more relevant with each passing generation. heat-moon (a professor at my college, the university of missouri, in the '80s when i was a student) traveled the country in the 1970s taking only the "blue highways" of his antique road map -- the non-interstate back roads, that is. what he found was a cultural america rapidly disappearing, being replaced with the ka-chings of a mi...more

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Aug 01, 2007 Ruth rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: anyone

Shelves: americana

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...more

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May 04, 2011 Scott rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

What a huge disappointment.

I am predisposed to enjoy this kind of book. I love to travel and to take the roads less traveled. I've been to many places in America and I throughly enjoy exploring everywhere I haven't yet been. Back in High School, I would read Michael Crichton's Travels, some parts many times over, just imagining what it would be like to be able to visit the places he wrote about. Since then, I've read quite a few recollections of random journeys...and I can safely say that Blue...more What a huge disappointment.

I am predisposed to enjoy this kind of book. I love to travel and to take the roads less traveled. I've been to many places in America and I throughly enjoy exploring everywhere I haven't yet been. Back in High School, I would read Michael Crichton's Travels, some parts many times over, just imagining what it would be like to be able to visit the places he wrote about. Since then, I've read quite a few recollections of random journeys...and I can safely say that Blue Highways is the worst of them.

The author takes his trek around the forgotten parts of America after the failure of his marriage and the loss of his teaching job. He decides to drive all around the country in his van (named Ghost Dancer), just taking the back roads, which used to be labeled blue on maps. To find himself? To look for "America?" To get a better perspective on his lot in life? I don't know, and he never quite says. He starts the journey angry and bitter and those emotions never change.

William Least Heat-Moon supposedly speaks with many of the people that inhabit these small towns, and yet he might as well have just spoken with one of them. Each and every person he finds to chat with "sounds" exactly the same. They all talk in a short, clipped way. No matter what the background or biography, they all have a folksy wisdom-y way of getting their stories across. The same lack of sentence structure, the same lack of pronouns, et.al gets old fast.

Moon also seems less than honest and forthcoming about his intentions towards his subjects. For a while, he seems to keep the fact that he's going to be writing a book about the people he talks to a secret. He will say he's "just passing through," for example, keeping it mysterious. He will chat with someone for dialog-heavy pages, and then move on. But then... there's the middle of the novel, which has pictures of some of these folksy people. So obviously he told his subjects far more than he is telling us. For example: after chatting with some guys who are hang-gliding, they randomly invite him back for dinner and drinks to talk about hang-gliding. According to Moon's account, he barely says three sentences during all of this, and those words are all about the hang-gliding. The suspension of disbelief is constantly tested in this way.

The reason this is a problem is there is no other reason for Moon to be out where he is, having the conversations he's having other than for the purpose of the book.

For a contrast, take Bill Bryson's work. Bryson also travels and writes about his experiences. And yet, be it Australia, England, or backpacking on the AT, each experience he relates feels far more authentic --even when Bryson might be exaggerating for comic effect. The people he meets seem like individual people and the reason for his interactions come directly and logically out of his circumstances.

It would also help if William Least Heat-Moon was a likable person; someone we could get behind and enjoy this journey with. Alas, he's a miserable bastard at his worst and just a depressive bore at his best. Every one of his encounters results in the opportunity for him to either chat with "someone" or be highly critical of what he is witnessing. There's no big insight, no humor, no drama.... just moments of "read my thoughts on or about these people" or variations of "this sucks...." The only exceptions are when he throws in a random Walt Whitman quote and he does this so often, you could make a decent drinking game out of it.

My last complaint is about how often Moon wants his readers to know how horrible modern life, big cities, and big highways are. And of course, in contrast, how much better are those blue highways and the little towns. Having traveled quite a lot myself, I can, with full confidence claim that this is utter bullshit.

There are good cities and bad. There are good highways and bad. I would love to never have to drive in I-93 around Boston again. The sprawl and endless mini-malls and tourist traps of Cherokee, North Carolina? Horrible. But what about The Blue Ridge Parkway? That's a national highway, and it is utterly beautiful. 469 Miles of Awesome. Or Highway 1 along the California Coast: one of the most memorable and beautiful things I have ever seen. Just because something is remote and forgotten doesn't mean that it's inherently better than what is popular. Sometimes something is popular for a good reason--because it is good.

I would love to be able to drive around and explore for the amount of time Moon did. In fact, my grandparents took a year out of their retirement and did just that. They came back with wonderful stories and pictures. They went to the popular places and the places hidden away from progress. They talked of that experience for the rest of their lives and it always brought smiles to their faces. And ultimately, that is what Blue Highways lacks. There is no joy in the journey and so it is not worth taking.

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Scott I am certainly not going to offer "evidence" of specific word choices by the author. If my overall impression after reading the book is not sufficient...more
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Marc I'll try draw a string around this so we can move on.

1)You say above, "But then... there's the middle of the novel, which has pictures of some of the...more
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Feb 09, 2013 Sean rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I'm not sure why it took me 20 years after first receiving this to read (a different copy). But I'm glad I waited until I'd made my own cross-country pilgrimage, and that it was fresh in my mind.

The downside of this is that the America Heat-Moon describes has receded that much further into the past. But change - and often an accompanying feeling of loss - is perhaps the one thing about America that's eternal. Heat-Moon reminds us what's really interesting are the varieties of ways that people an...more

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Feb 06, 2009 James rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Ugh...

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 (I'...more

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Jan 19, 2008 Steve rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: people with wanderlust

Shelves: fun-nonfiction

Actually, I first read this book about 15 years ago, but I was sick, it was there, and one thing leads to another..

The first time I read this, it was a great road trip, full of interesting places to visit and cool people to talk to and relics of a disappearing America. Now I'm older and much closer to the author's age when he wrote this, and a bit more familiar with how things don't always work out the way you expect.

It's still a great book, but the extra layer of the personal journey makes the...more

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Jun 19, 2008 Blueskies18 rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Another travelog. A little slow and quite serious. Yet I learned a few things and found myself consulting goodgle maps to locate some of the more interesting small towns he encountered. But it took me a long time to finish it. I could only handle a half dozen pages at one sitting. I like travelogs, but I prefer Bill Bryson's books because I can breeze through them as if I were reading a 'beach book' with interesting information and a bunch of belly laughs to boot. No one does it better than Brys...more

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Mar 19, 2013 Kate rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: american-classics, books-addressing-human-frailty, race-stuff

The best thing about Blue Highways are the absolutely brilliant, brilliant descriptive passages. Describing the southwest landscape as "spare and lean as a coyote's leg", for instance. His descriptions are fitting and original and beautiful. For those, and those alone, he would get a five from me.

I also appreciate the times he is describing. Now thirty years old, the book captured America at a time when there was not yet a Pizza Hut on every corner. This was written before Reagan's Corporate Am...more

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Nov 23, 2012 Mark rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Least Heat Moon (William Trogdon) took off in a converted truck to escape a crumbling marriage and dismissal from a job, seeking the kind of dislocation and new recognition possible on the American equivalent of a Walk-about. He chose to stay off the main highways as much as possible and drove the so-called Blue Highways, the state roads and secondary arteries that are indicated in blue in most roadmaps. He circumnavigated the country, searching---and finding---and chronicling. The result is thi...more

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Nov 08, 2012 Melissa rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: nonfiction

I'm a sucker for travel memoirs. I just love hearing about the author's trip and the people they meet along the way. But a travel memoir is only as good as the author's writing and this one is wonderful. It reminded me a lot of Steinbeck's Travels With Charley.

Heat-Moon loses his job as a professor and separates from his wife. These two events motivate him to take a van and drive around the entire country. He tries to stick to the back roads instead of the interstates. He is truly gifted at des...more

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Apr 18, 2012 Destiny Allison rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I just finished reading Blue Highways, by William Least Heat-Moon It was beautiful. Man in search of himself without a place to start. Man in search of himself on the road. Man in search of himself at journey’s end. A familiar story.

Why is it we are always taught we are going to get somewhere and that the journey will end? The author’s journey was a peaceful thing, tying together our common threads and our individuality in a way that made me feel not so alone. I loved the people he met, the rai...more

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Jan 21, 2012 Thirteenth Peer rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: auto-biography

I have wanted to read this book for a long time but also have kind of avoided it because I worried it would be boring. I enjoyed it a lot when I finally got around to it. I thought he succeeded in meeting interesting people and describing them in an engaging way. Although there is worthwhile reflection on what he's experiencing it's kept pretty minimal. He keeps the experiences themselves very much in the foreground. It was also interesting to compare with my own travels which have been much les...more

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Dec 13, 2011 Ensiform rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: non-fiction, travel

The author, an English teacher of Sioux descent, loses his job and his wife, and decides to tour the small towns of America. The blue highways, as he calls them, are the back roads, compared to the red highways on maps (that’s changed now, of course). Taking along nothing much, he sleeps in his truck, talking with the people about their lives, the past, their local history, their philosophies, etc.

Quoting Whitman and American Indian creeds every few pages, he makes his own views pretty clear: pr...more

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Jul 29, 2011 Adam Haan added it · review of another edition

I thought that I would – for reasons unbeknownst to me – share my opinions of the book I just finished. In William Least Heat Moon’s classic 1982 book Blue Highways: A Journey Into America, the author loses his job and his wife and decides to travel around America to clear his head. He stays away from the interstates and large cities. He drives the narrow highways and talks to people he meets in places like Ninety Six, South Carolina and Liberty Bond, Washington.

What results is a very enjoyable...more

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Mar 28, 2011 Patrick Gibson rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: truth_sort-of

William Least-Heat Moon, writes of a journey taken away from the "interstates" of the human experience. In the near-forgotten places and continental corners he passes through, life manages to persist in ways that it does not in the change-racked "fast lane" so many of us are swept into. Nearly three decades have passed and the book is no less relevant in what it says about modernity: In the chain-store franchise, places increasingly appear like every other place, and local color and richness fad...more

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Feb 07, 2011 Mrs. Foley rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book by local author, William Least Heat Moon, was recently discussed by our Faculty Book Group. I could have spent the entire time talking about it and quoting from it. It gives such a great picture of the average American living in the small towns across the nation. Worth reading!

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First published in 1982, William Least Heat-Moon's 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...more

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Jan 27, 2011 Angelo Ricci added it · review of another edition

Le strade blu sono quelle vie secondarie degli Stati Uniti che difficilmente appaiono sulle cartine. Strade blu è anche il titolo di un libro di William Least Heat-Moon. Un libro uscito nel 1989. Tanti anni fa, quindi. Tanti anni, forse troppi. Non ricordo nemmeno più il motivo per cui me lo procurai e del perché me lo lessi d'un fiato. Forse cercavo delle risposte (quante risposte cerchiamo mai, nei libri che leggiamo). Oppure volevo semplicemente unire altre domande alla teoria infinita di que...more

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Jan 26, 2011 Melissa rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: travel

I have mixed feelings about this book. It has taken me forever to read, and not because I was just savoring it. It's not a particularly long book, I could just only stand to read so much of it at a time. Least Heat Moon tells interesting stories and meets some fabulous people in this journey, but he tends to be long-winded.

After losing his wife and his job, and figuring he has nothing holding him back, William Least Heat Moon turns his van into a somewhat camper and decides to just drive. As a u...more I have mixed feelings about this book. It has taken me forever to read, and not because I was just savoring it. It's not a particularly long book, I could just only stand to read so much of it at a time. Least Heat Moon tells interesting stories and meets some fabulous people in this journey, but he tends to be long-winded.

After losing his wife and his job, and figuring he has nothing holding him back, William Least Heat Moon turns his van into a somewhat camper and decides to just drive. As a unique point of his roadtrip, he doesn't take the more common roads and highways, but instead what he calls the "Blue Highways". Those roads that are in an old atlas marked in blue and not commonly used for travel anymore. He starts out in MO and makes a trek to the eastern shore, from there he heads south, and then West, eventually making a complete circle around the United States and ending back in MO. He enjoys most of his travels, although, like some of the other travel books I've read, he didn't have all pleasant experiences in the South. While he encounters racism in different parts of the United States, most of the ones he writes about are in this region.

He meets some very interesting people and his stories of them were some of my favorite parts of the book. The shipbuilder, who over the years has been building his own boat for him and his wife to live on once its complete. The barber who gave him one of the best haircuts of his life. The traveling "missionary" who liked to hitchhike and was headed towards South America by way of Montana. There are several other characters, but these were the main ones that stood out to me. He also, thoughtfully, includes pictures of these individuals so we can picture who he's talking to.

The other parts of the book are more of a "poetic" description of his feelings and what he is learning from this trip. This isn't a bad thing to have in a book really. But he tends to ramble on a bit in these sections and to me they weren't as relevant at times as I would have liked. I found myself losing interest when confronted with several of these chapters at a time and it probably explains why it took me so long to read this book.

Least Heat Moon is a good writer. Everything is clear and richly descriptive. He just seems to like his words so much that he can't be as concise as most writers. When he's writing about other people he's excellent. Writing about himself is just a whole different style for him.

I liked a good half of the book I would say. It's always interesting to read travelogues and I especially like it when author's focus on what they are seeing and who they are meeting, rather than their thoughts on how the trip is changing their life. In this book, I got half of each. I would recommend reading it, as he does have some interesting accounts in the book.

Blue Highways
Copyright 1983
411 pages + map and afterword

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Jun 05, 2009 Evanston Public Library added it · review of another edition

When on the same day in 1978 William Least Heat Moon finds out that he has lost his job and that his wife is leaving him for good, he decides to walk away from his life and hit the road. Outfitting a junky old van with a cot, makeshift bathroom, and portable stove, he sets out on a journey across America with just $428 in his pocket. Sticking only to what he calls “blue highways,” the small rural backroads (in his atlas these secondary highways are marked in blue ink) linking the nation’s small...more

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Mar 04, 2010 Pat rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

In search of the real America, or in need of escape, the author sets out to circle the country in a van, staying only on the state and local roads - the one's that appear blue on his maps. This is something I've always wanted to do and what drew me to this book. This is the record of what he saw on his trip, from the deep South to the Pacific Northwest, fishermen to farmers, through forests, snowstorms, deserts, and beaches.

However, sometimes the author seems overly sentimental, bemoaning the lo...more

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Aug 20, 2012 Josh Fish rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is the story of one man's journey around the U.S. using only small highways and no freeways. He labels sections according to geographic region of the country and weirdly puts the map of his route at the end of the book, maybe as a revelation to the readers. I say, it should've gone in the beginning. This book is very much in the vein of Travel's with Charlie or countless other travel books trying to discover the real America and it's insightful and witty. It's a little too witty at times, s...more

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May 28, 2012 Kaitlyn Barrett rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: travel-related

This book was on the NY Times bestseller list for 42 weeks. I’ve been trying to figure out why. It’s good. It’s well written and thoughtful but it’s also lonesome. Least Heat Moon writes about travel in a way that feels like the last precinct of a desperate man and I'm not sure what about that appeals to the armchair travelers of the USA.

All good travel books have an interior journey wedded to an exterior journey. His exterior journey is a several week road trip around the outskirts of the US c...more This book was on the NY Times bestseller list for 42 weeks. I’ve been trying to figure out why. It’s good. It’s well written and thoughtful but it’s also lonesome. Least Heat Moon writes about travel in a way that feels like the last precinct of a desperate man and I'm not sure what about that appeals to the armchair travelers of the USA.

All good travel books have an interior journey wedded to an exterior journey. His exterior journey is a several week road trip around the outskirts of the US continent, from Missouri to the west coast, across the top of the US underneath Canada, down the east coast and back to MO. He deliberately took “blue roads,” little 2 lane country roads through small to nonexistent towns for as much of the trip as possible and he made an effort to connect with people all over to hear their stories and learn about their local history. This book plots the gradual withering of the hands on, hard labor 20th century way of life and the subsequent death of small towns all over the US. Almost everyone he talks to thinks that things were better before and they’re looking into to a future that they can’t quite adapt to or live in.

His interior journey is one of searching for “a place where change doesn’t mean ruin and where time and deeds and men connect.” He’s already a man who lives in between things. He’s part Caucasian and part Native American, two cultures that don’t understand each other. He lives in some third culture land between the two but doesn’t embrace either one fully.

He seems to interview random people, drive through random towns and absorb random historical info as a way of rooting himself in this country. I’m just not sure it works. I think he develops an appreciation for the length, breadth and depth of the US but he still doesn’t place himself in it. He doesn’t find his own roots. He only inspects those of other people.

The tone of the book is lonely in a way that makes it difficult for me to breathe. I wonder if he feels he accomplished what he set out to do or if he simply got a chance to take his problems on the road and in the process, he lost a few along the way and became accustomed to the others.
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Jul 27, 2011 Abby added it · review of another edition

I came across this book while leaning on a bookshelf at a coffee shop open mic night, listening to the loveably mediocre performances of everything from acoustic Chinese folk songs to the "BIA Blues." The description looked interesting and I kept thinking about it, so I came back the next day and bought it. I mention this because I think it would please William Least-Heat Moon.

I loved Blue Highways, although I'm not sure why: there is no plot in the sense of action rising to a climax, and only o...more

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Mar 23, 2011 Ocean rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

this is a poetically written, sparse-yet-beautiful memoir of a brokenhearted man traveling america's back roads, hanging out in small towns and talking to random people. each chapter is really short, but full of beautiful, odd and stunning lines. i liked it for that, and also because i'd like to go on a journey like that, but i can't: i don't know how to drive. i've travelled the country extensively before, but it's always been on a bus or in a car with other people, never driving aimlessly by m...more

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Dec 28, 2012 Harry Allagree rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I wasn't sure before starting this book if I was really going to like it. Having finished it, I can say that it's an extremely worthwhile read, with one caveat: it's somewhat dated, having been written in 1983, and reissued in 1999. The places throughout the U.S. which he describes were already changing profoundly when he experienced them. I can only imagine how much more has changed in 14 years, not to mention 30 years. It's a fascinating book, full of wisdom, humor, and a wealth of historical...more

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Jan 10, 2009 Stephen rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: favorites

“Other than to amuse himself, why should a man pretend to know where he’s going or to understand what he sees?” writes author William Least Heat-Moon. Indeed.

On the cover of my copy of Blue Highways, Robert Penn Warren is quoted as calling the book “a masterpiece.” Yes. It’s a magnificent ramble across America, a visit with some of its most curious places and people. It’s also a journey of self-discovery, made at a time when the author needed to take stock in his life and redirect his course.

“Wh...more

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Nov 27, 2009 Joe rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I love this book because Mr Least Heat-Moon describes a trip I've been dreaming of taking forever: driving around the backroads of the entire country with no particular plan other than to eat good foods, meet folks, and learn about different cultures. One thing I would do differently is stop in more cities to take in some music and arts and baseball games and added variety. Oh and I'd want to invite some friends and family to join for parts of the trip. Because after 300 pages his small town sto...more

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Apr 29, 2009 Adam K added it · review of another edition

When I'm not traveling, anticipating traveling, or traveling, travelogues are one of my favorite things to read. It occurred to me that I had never read one that involved traveling through the US, so I picked this book up.

The title refers to the smaller, one-lane, back-country highways being depicted in blue on road maps (the interstates represented with red). Heat-Moon was experiencing a turbulent time in his personal life, and decided to take some time to see if he could travel around the coun...more

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Mar 11, 2009 Steve rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: own-audio, own-print

"When a man can’t make things go right, he can at least go."

After experiencing some personal setbacks, William Least Heat-Moon traveled in a circle through America, doing a more-than-decent job of chronicling his adventure and encounters. In the end, he admits he didn't do as much self-discovery as he'd hoped, but the journey was worthwhile and pretty interesting for us, the readers.

I appreciated Heat-Moon's style, which I think included the right ratio of actual travel reporting mixed with phil...more

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