{"product_id":"9780826219695","title":"Blue Highways Revisited","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1978, William Least Heat-Moon made a 14,000-mile journey on the back roads of America, visiting 38 states along the way. In 1982, the popular \u003ci\u003eBlue Highways\u003c\/i\u003e, which chronicled his adventures, was published. Three decades later, Edgar Ailor III and his son, Edgar IV, retraced and photographed Heat-Moon’s route, culminating in Blue Highways\u003ci\u003e Revisited\u003c\/i\u003e, released for publication on the thirtieth anniversary of \u003ci\u003eBlue Highways\u003c\/i\u003e. A foreword by Heat-Moon notes, \"The photographs, often with amazing accuracy, capture my verbal images and the spirit of the book. Taking the journey again through these pictures, I have been intrigued and even somewhat reassured that America is changing not quite so fast as we often believe. The photographs, happily, reveal a recognizable continuity - but for how much longer who can say - and I'm glad the Ailors have recorded so many places and people from \u003ci\u003eBlue Highways\u003c\/i\u003e while they are yet with us.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough illustrative photography and text, Ailor and his son capture once more the local color and beauty of the back roads, cafes, taverns, and people of Heat-Moon’s original trek. Almost every photograph in Blue Highways \u003ci\u003eRevisited\u003c\/i\u003e is referenced to a page in the original work. With side-by-side photographic comparisons of eleven of Heat-Moon’s characters, this new volume reflects upon and develops the memoir of Heat-Moon’s cross-country study of American culture and spirit. Photographs of Heat-Moon’s logbook entries, original manuscript pages, Olympia typewriter, Ford van, and other artifacts also give readers insight into Heat-Moon’s approach to his trip. Discussions with Heat-Moon about these archival images provide the reader insight into the travels and the writing of \u003ci\u003eBlue Highways\u003c\/i\u003e that only the perspective of the author could provide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlue Highways\u003ci\u003e Revisited\u003c\/i\u003e reaffirms that the \"blue highway\" serves as a romantic symbol of the free and restless American spirit, as the Ailors lose themselves to the open road as Heat-Moon did thirty years previously. This book reminds readers of the insatiable attraction of the “blue highway”—“But in those brevities just before dawn and a little after dusk—times neither day or night—the old roads return to the sky some of its color. Then, in truth, they carry a mysterious cast of blue, and it's that time when the pull of the blue highway is strongest, when the open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself” (Introduction to \u003ci\u003eBlue Highways\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Missouri Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47021492863216,"sku":"9780826219695","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780826219695_p0.jpg?v=1763824781","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780826219695","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}