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.
William Least Heat-Moon Books
August 27, 1939
William Least Heat-Moon is an American travel writer of English, Irish, and Osage Nation ancestry. He is renowned for his bestselling trilogy of topographical U.S. travelogues. His works delve into the American terrain and culture, capturing the essence of places and their people. His writing is characterized by keen observation and a unique perspective on the American landscape.
Robert Penn Warren pronounced Heat-Moon's Blue Highways "a masterpiece." Now Heat-Moon has pulled to the side of the road and set off on foot to take readers on an exploration of time and space, landscape and history in the Flint Hills of central Kansas.