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Although Blue Highways is remembered primarily for the physical trek, which covers about 38 of the 50 states in the U.S., the quintessence of the book is the internal journey that Least Heat-Moon takes. The blue highways allowed Least Heat-Moon the space and the freedom to reflect upon who he was, who he wanted to be, and how he fit into the ...
Blue Highways Revisited: Written and photographed by Edgar I. Ailor III, and Edgar I. Ailor IV, Blue Highways Revisited is a 30-year follow-up to Heat-Moon's original book. The Ailors re-travel the routes of Heat-Moon and seek out the sites he visited, as well as the people he interacted with along the way. [2]
William Least Heat-Moon (born William Trogdon) was the acclaimed writer of the bestseller Blue Highways (1982) when he began to write PrairyErth. Blue Highways had been a book about his wanderings along America's little-travelled byways, and while PrairyErth is similarly about the undiscovered heart of the United States, it focuses much more ...
Heat-Moon, William Least (1983). Blue Highways. New York, NY: Back Bay Books Little Brown and Co. ISBN 9780316353298. Rankin, Hugh F. (1971). The North Carolina Continentals. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 9780807811542
River Horse is the literal English translation of the Greek word Hippopotamus (ἱπποπόταμος). Other uses include: River Horse, a sculpture at George Washington University; River Horse Brewery, a brewery in New Jersey; River-Horse, a 1999 book by William Least Heat-Moon
William Least Heat-Moon (born 1939) Blue Highways: A Journey into America (1982) Peter Mayle (born 1939) A Year in Provence (1989) Colin Thubron (born 1939) Mirror to Damascus (1967) In Siberia (1999) Among the Russians (1983) Behind the Wall: A Journey through China (1987) To a Mountain in Tibet (2011) The Amur River: Between Russia and China ...
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In the 1982 book Blue Highways: A Journey Into America, William Least Heat-Moon reported a variant explanation in which the residents themselves decided that the community should be "nameless" after one of them said "This here’s a nameless place if I ever seen one, so leave it be."