Highways, Current Literature
Author: Public Roads Bureau
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Published: 1945
Total Pages: 366
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Author: Public Roads Bureau
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Published: 1945
Total Pages: 366
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Published: 1931
Total Pages: 524
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Public Roads Administration. Library
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Published: 1949
Total Pages: 696
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Tammy Ingram
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1469612984
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDixie Highway: Road Building and the Making of the Modern South, 1900-1930
Author: United States. Federal Highway Administration
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 566
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Published: 1928
Total Pages: 440
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Edgar I. Ailor
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2012-05-25
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 0826219691
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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 Blue Highways, 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 Revisited, released for publication on the thirtieth anniversary of Blue Highways. 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 Blue Highways while they are yet with us." Through 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 Revisited 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 Blue Highways that only the perspective of the author could provide. Blue Highways Revisited 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 Blue Highways).
Author: Ronald Primeau
Publisher: Popular Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780879726980
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Americans have treated the highway as sacred space," says Primeau (English, Central Michigan U.) introducing the rich tradition of prose and non-fiction road narratives that include On the Road, Grapes of Wrath, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, and the Journals of Lewis and Clark. Primeau critically examines these and other works from the position of travel as pilgrimage resulting in identifiable themes of protest, self discovery, picaresque parody, and myth making. Paper edition (unseen), $17.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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Published: 1924
Total Pages: 1694
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