The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale (the glare in the photograph is from the Mylar). We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. A Good, blue binding with gilt lettering on spine, binding sturdy and intact, fading along board and spine edges, some crimping to spine edges, few scuff marks bottom text block edge, scattered foxing to text block edge, small soiled spot bottom text block edge, sticker residue top front free endpaper, spine buckram starting to separate from backing material, in a Good, some handling/scuff marks to panels, bit of edge/corner wear, spine fade, few small tears and creases along edges, sunning to flaps, Mylar protected, Dust Wrapper. Little, Brown and Company (Atlantic Monthly Press Book) Boston, 1982. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. it will be supported by a 14-city author tour, national advertising, holiday catalogs, and NPR sponsorship.- This edition of Blue Highways will include a new introduction by the author. The places he discovers during his 13,000-mile journey are unexpected, sometimes mysterious, and often full of simply the wonder of the ordinary.- Blue Highways received extraordinary reviews when it was first published: - The current trade paperback edition (Houghton Mifflin) sells 25,000 copies a year but will be out of print by August 1999.- Heat Moon's long-awaited next book, River-Horse, will be out in September and will draw much attention to this important author. on the 'blue highways, ' the rural back made that are colored blue on old maps. In this highly acclaimed, bestselling memoir, a 38-year-old laid-off college professor of Sioux and white blood drives around the U.S.

Published in 1983 to phenomenal reviews, Blue Highways: A Journey into America became a cult classic on par with Jack Kerouac's On the Road and John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley.

Blue highways book