The author of Blue Highways and PrairyErth "takes us on a lifetime voyage full of imagery, insight and appreciation." --Cleveland Plain Dealer
In his most ambitious journey ever, William Least Heat-Moon sets off aboard a small boat named Nikawa ("river horse" in Osage) from the Atlantic at New York Harbor in hopes of entering the Pacific near Astoria, Oregon. He and his companion, Pilotis, struggle to cover some 5,000 watery miles, often following in the wakes of our most famous explorers, from Henry Hudson to Lewis and Clark. 
En route, the voyagers confront massive floods, dangerous weather, and their own doubts about whether they can complete the trip. But the hard days yield incomparable pleasures: generous strangers, landscapes untouched since Sacajawea saw them, riverscapes flowing with a lively past, and the growing belief that efforts to protect our lands and waters are beginning to pay off. 
Teeming with humanity, humor, and high adventure, River-Horse is an unsentimental and original arteriogram of our nation at the millennium.

River-Horse: The Logbook of a Boat Across America

Politics & Social Sciences

Least-Heat Moon, William

Social Sciences

Penguin Publishing Group

Recounts the author's journey through America along the nation's backroads

Blue Highways: A Journey into America

Travel

Travel Writing

Little,Brown & Co

The acclaimed author of Blue Highways and PrairyErth chronicles his journey across America's waterways in his dory Nikawa (River Horse), encountering strange people, hostile cities, and hair-raising dangers. Tour.

River-Horse: A Voyage Across America

Houghton/Mifflin

The author of Blue Highways intimately describes the mysteries of the universe that he finds in a 774-square-mile tract of land in the Flint Hills of central Kansas. Reprint. 60,000 first printing.

PrairyErth (A Deep Map)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Mariner Books

Embracing the true American experience, the author details his fascinating odyssey through America where he encountered a vast array of colorful characters residing in small, forgotten towns that revel both in the joys and mysteries of life. Reissue.

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

Robert Penn Warren pronounced Heat-Moon's Blue Highways "a masterpiece." Now Heat-Moon has pulled to the side of the road and set off on foot to take readers on an exploration of time and space, landscape and history in the Flint Hills of central Kansas.

Prairyerth: A Deep Map

History

Americas

River-Horse : Across America by Boat

Bt Bound

The author chronicles his journey across America's waterways in his dory Nikawa (River Horse), encountering strange people, hostile cities, and hair-raising dangers.

River-Horse: Across America by Boat (G K Hall Large Print Book Series)

Sports & Outdoors

Water Sports

G.K.Hall & Co.

In this account of his twelve-thousand-mile journey across America--tracing his white ancestors--a native American reveals a glimpse of backroads America

This Land Is Your Land offers a unique perspective on the American landscape, making the familiar fantastic, as well as an aesthetic experience of dizzying proportions. Marilyn Bridges takes us on an inspiring journey, as we look down together on the fleeting moments and lasting signatures of the United States that are etched on our continent. An aerial photographer who has explored ancient cultures around the world for more than a decade, Bridges has now focused her attention on a subject no less intriguing: the grandeur of America. By flying and photographing at low altitudes, and by maintaining a sensuous closeness with her subject, Bridges avoids the simplistic representation of landscape as mere design. Divided regionally, This Land Is Your Land accents the variety of America, but follows civilization's uneasy interaction with the environment as a common thread. We see the earth shaped and reshaped to service humanity. Monuments rise to celebrate our achievements even as nature wards off intrusion. Fledgling communities spring up among lava and sand. Scars left by clear-cutting, mining, and nuclear waste raise concerns for the future. Yet here, too, there is ironic wit. The towering presidential portraits at Mount Rushmore appear dwarfed by surrounding mountains. The Statue of Liberty hides in plain sight, completely swathed in scaffolding. From the intimacy of a farmhouse to the majesty of the Grand Canyon, Bridges's original vision provides an unequaled perspective on the land in which we live. In the Book's Essay by acclaimed writer William Least Heat-Moon, and the Afterword by Bridges, we are given insight into the photographer's working process and the inspiration behind her images. Certainly, This Land Is Your Land contains an urgent environmental message; in every photograph we sense a longing for a purer time, before humanity dismissed the land's indigenous curves and flow in favor of the urban grid. Still, Bridges offers no facile solutions or sentimental appeals. Faced with the jumble of American progress, we look for a vision of nature as idyllic--only to be awed by the savage forces unleashed by Mount St. Helens and the Kilauea volcano. Never what you expect, This Land Is Your Land provides page after page of visual surprises. The book inspires in us a haunting and profound admiration for a vibrant land which will prevail long after our civilization has gone.

This Land Is Your Land: Across America by Air

Arts & Photography

Bridges, Marilyn

Photography & Video

Aperture

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Books by Least-Heat Moon, William

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River-Horse: The Logbook of a Boat Across America

Blue Highways: A Journey into America

River-Horse: A Voyage Across America

PrairyErth (A Deep Map)

Blue Highways: A Journey into America

Prairyerth: A Deep Map

River-Horse : Across America by Boat

River-Horse: Across America by Boat (G K Hall Large Print Book Series)

Blue Highways: A Journey into America

This Land Is Your Land: Across America by Air