**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,
Virginia; New Freedom, Pennsylvania; New Hope, Tennessee; Why, Arizona;
Whynot, Mississippi."
His adventures, his discoveries, and his recollections of the
extraordinary people he encountered along the way amount to a revelation
of the true American experience.