His latest project is Writing Blue Highways (University of Missouri Press, 2014). Wallace (University of Oklahoma Press, 2013). Heat-Moon went on to publish many other works, including the recent An Osage Journey to Europe, 1827-1830, coauthored with James K. The writing is lyrical, full of life lessons, and informed by a strong environmental ethic. Part social history, part travel writing, and part spiritual odyssey, Blue Highways offers tales of America’s forgotten “outback” and the people still connected to that fading world. It was hard to categorize yet sat on the bestseller list for nearly a year. Heat-Moon drove the back roads designated as blue lines in his Rand McNally Atlas.īlue Highways surprised the publishing world.
It’s William Least Heat-Moon’s account of a three-month, 14,000-mile road trip he took in a converted mini-van he called Ghost Dancing. In 1982, the Atlantic Monthly Press and Little, Brown published Blue Highways: A Journey into America.
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