All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of its content suppliers and protected by us and international laws. It should be a must read for anyone interested in solo travel as with most great travelogues, this is not just an autobiographical journey of a man traveling across the u. Blue highways by william least heat moon, 1991, houghton mifflin edition, 2nd pbk. The story of how a book happened is an adventure story of its own, a journey of exploration into the myriad routes of heart and mind that led to the making of a book from the first sorry and now vanished paragraph to the last words that came not from a graphite pencil but from a. The blue highways are for heatmoon a seemingly inexhaustible source of historical, topographical, and cartographic anecdotes, but more important, they are places where the author finds that. William leastheatmoon 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 mapif they get on at allonly because some cartographer has a blank space to fill.
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