William heat moon blue highways6/28/2023 ![]() Presented by Town Hall Seattle and The Bushwick Book Club Seattle. 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. Please consider buying your Bushwick choices with their local bookstore partner, Third Place Books. Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation’s backroads. Heads up: Blue Highways travels deep into many rural parts of America in the politically charged post-Vietnam era of the late-1970s, capturing dialects, attitudes, and customs - warts and all.Ĭheck it out at Seattle Public Library. “Though the events take place more than 40 years ago, the book reads like a search for what currently ails us, because what ailed us then ails us now.” - New York Times ![]() ![]() Part memoir and part travelogue, Blue Highways is an exploration of self and community, an enduring reminder that a country isn’t just a place - it’s people. (“A man who couldn’t make things go right could at least go.”) Without a destination, Least Heat-Moon traveled the country on America’s “blue highways”- rural, two-lane roads so-called because of their color in the road atlas. ![]() Decades before #vanlife would trend, William Least Heat-Moon responded to upheaval in his life by hitting the road in a 1975 Ford Econoline and chronicling the journey. Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nations backroads. ![]()
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