![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The book was released in January of 1983. Eighty-two days later, after traveling through thirty-eight states and over 13,889 miles, Heat-Moon’s journey became the basis for the travel memoir Blue Highways: A Journey into America. Driven by “a nearly desperate sense of isolation,” he left Missouri determined to make a journey solely on “blue highways”-the writer’s now-iconic term for the back roads he assiduously studied on U.S. His teaching job at Stephens College had been eliminated and a separation from his wife of ten years appeared to be permanent. At the time Heat-Moon was thirty-eight years old. It was “the fastest route east out of the homeland,” he would later write, and the starting point of what would be a remarkable and influential journey through the continental United States. On a dismal morning in March, 1978, William Least Heat-Moon left Columbia, Missouri, on Interstate 70. ![]()
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