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Blue Highways
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It’s hard to know how many people developed an incurable case of wanderlust after reading this now classic book. The editor of this website bought his first motorhome after reading Blue Highways. "I read it about the same time as John Steinbeck’s ‘Travels With Charley,’" and that was all it took for me to sell my publishing business, buy a motorhome and take off to see America and write about it," said Chuck Woodbury. 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 classic. When he loses his job and his wife on the same cold February day, he is struck by inspiration: "A man who couldn't make things go right could at least go." And so he did. In a van he called Ghost Dancing, he put his old life behind him and escaped into the country. The people and the places he discovered on his roundabout 13,000-mile trip down the back roads and through small, forgotten towns are unexpected, sometimes mysterious, and full of the spark and wonder of ordinary life. Robert Penn Warren said, "He has a genius for finding people who have not even found themselves." The power of Heat-Moon's writing and his delight in the overlooked and the unexamined capture a sense of our national destiny, the true American experience. Our suggestion is to place this book by your bedside and read a chapter each night slowly before going to sleep, savoring each word. Softcover. 448 pages.
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