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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
581 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Heat-Moon writes travel books like no one else. Quirky, discursive, endlessly curious, he embarks on American journeys off the beaten path. Sticking to the small places via the small roads, he uncovers a nation deep in character, story, and charm. "Quoz" refers to anything strange, incongruous, or peculiar. Quoz can be history and heredity; stories, retold or invented; strange characters with poignant dreams. It's places with names like Sublimity...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
xi, 402 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Heat Moon draws together for the first time his greatest short-form travel writing, including his adventures in Japan, England, Italy, Mexico, Long Island, Oregon, Arizona, and more.
Author
Publisher
Back Bay Books
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 27
Physical Desc
429 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
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,...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 33
Physical Desc
xii, 506 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Description
William Least Heat-Moon provides an account of his experiences during a five-thousand mile journey across America by boat.
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