Blue Highways
A Journey into America
by William Least Heat Moon
Recommended by George Raveling and Cheryl Strayed
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Travel, Most Recommended Books, and Travel.
Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads.William Least HeatMoon 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...
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