Having dramatically expanded our sense of place in both Blue Highways and PrairyErth, he looked for and found an adventure that would focus readers on the state of America's water and waterways.īut Mr. Heat-Moon has become a traveler-writer like no other. Heat-Moon, in no small measure because he goes looking for them. Years writing the one, eight years the other.Īdventures have a way of finding Mr. Heat-Moon'sĬlassics Blue Highways and PrairyErth worked in much the same way - four The Journey that turned out to be River-Horse took four years andĭemanded that Mr. Washington.) But the sometimes harrowing trip was in some ways the easy In New Jersey and the New York City Harbor, ended just outside Astoria, Heat-Moon four months to cross Americaīy boat in a single season, adventure enough for most of us. Heat-Moon's Journey emerges.Īdventures are arduous.

That requires writing a book in which he can share his trip with the rest of us. He is intent on turning those trips into Journeys. William Least Heat-Moon's requires a great deal more of trips than most of the rest of us do. Least Heat-Moon lives near the Missouri River. With a PhD in English and an undergraduate degree in journalism, Mr. The best-selling author of the classics, Blue Highways and PrairyErth, he has supplemented those experiences with stories and insights from his journey across America by boat, memorably recorded in River-Horse. Least Heat-Moon's mix of adventure, reportage, philosophy and humor have become a standard by which travel books are now judged. William Least Heat-Moon on The Paula Gordon Show

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