Hailed like a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation’s backroads.

William Least Heat-Moon lay out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a feeling of curiosity about ‘those little cities that can get on the map — if they get on at all — only because some cartographer has a blank space to fill up: Remote control, Oregon; Simpleness, Virginia; New Freedom, Pennsylvania; New Wish, Tennessee; Why, Arizona; Whynot, Mississippi.’

His journeys, his discoveries, and his recollections from the extraordinary people he encountered on the way amount to a surprising rvelation of the real American experience.