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Summary: "In 1978, William Least Heat-Moon made a 14,000-mile journey on the back roads of America, visiting 38 states along the way. In 1982, the popular Blue Highways, which chronicled his adventures, was published. Three decades later, Edgar Ailor III and his son, Edgar IV, retraced and photographed Heat-Moon's route, culminating in Blue Highways Revisited, released for publication on the thirtieth...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Missouri Press 2012
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Summary: "In this novel of haunted love, Silas Fortunato, an amateur astronomer, finds his marriage descending toward darkness until the arrival of his sister-in-law and soon thereafter the appearance of a witching neighbor who may or may not exist. Enigmatic, ghostly, and funny, the three women draw him into the equivocal nature of reality and dreams, and lead him on a journey toward something vastly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Three Rooms Press 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2000
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Summary: Details the author's journey through the 744 square miles and meeting the 3,000 inhabitants of Chase County, Kansas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1991
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Summary: The author sets out from New York City to sail his boat across the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1999
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Summary: Over a quarter of a century ago, a previously unknown writer named William Least Heat-Moon wrote Blue Highways, a book unlike any other. Driven by an insatiable curiosity to explore the winding back roads, overlooked towns, and forgotten histories that have directly-or indirectly-shaped our culture, Heat-Moon uncovered a nation filled with character, depth, and charm. Now, for the first time...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley 2002
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Summary: Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads. William Least-Heat-Moon 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 map--if they get on at all--only because some cartographer has a blank space to fill: Remote, Oregon; Simplicity,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Back Bay Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.304 HEAHeat Moon, William Least.
Summary: A collection of short-form travel writing features the author's observations on locations ranging from Japan, England,and Italy to Long Island, Oregon, and Arizona.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.4 HEADuncan, Dayton.
Contents: Preface: Come up me / Ken Burns -- Introduction -- Look forward to distant times -- Floyd's bluff -- Land of plenty -- Children -- Vision quest / William Least Heat-Moon -- Perfect harmony -- Scenes of visionary enchantment -- Most distant fountain of the mighty Missouri -- Friends / Stephen E. Ambrose -- Hungry Creek -- O! The Joy -- Wet and disagreeable -- Finding Sacagawea / Erica Funkhouser...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1997