12 Best travel books like Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon

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Blue Highways

By: William Least Heat-Moon

3.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highwaysis an unforgettable journey along …

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1. The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)

By: Edward Abbey

4.08

Format: 421 pages, Paperback

Ed Abbey called The Monkey Wrench Gang, his 1975 novel, a "comic extravaganza." Some readers have r… read more

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  • adventure
"The night. The stars. The river."

-Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)

"I piss on you from a considerable height."

-Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)

"Poor Hayduke: won all his arguments but lost his immortal soul."

-Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)

"There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep."

-Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)

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2. The Waterworks

By: E.L. Doctorow

3.45

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

One rainy morning in 1871 in lower Manhattan, Martin Pemberton a freelance writer, sees in a passin… read more

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"But the institutional mind has only one mental operation: It abhors truth."

-E.L. Doctorow, The Waterworks

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3. Black Sun

By: Edward Abbey

3.00

Format: 12 pages, Paperback

Now in a Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition, the timeless novel that chronicles a reckless ro… read more

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4. Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia

By: Tony Horwitz

3.50

Format: None pages,

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Similar categories in Tony Horwitz's Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia book and William Least Heat-Moon's Blue Highways

  • history
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
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5. Travels with Charley: In Search of America

By: John Steinbeck

4.37

Format: None pages, Paperback

An intimate journey across and in search of America, as told by one of its most beloved writers, in… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction

6. All The Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West

By: David Gessner

3.78

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

Archetypal wild man Edward Abbey and proper, dedicated Wallace Stegner left their footprints all ov… read more

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  • travel
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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7. Blue Highways

By: William Least Heat-Moon

3.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highwaysis an unforgettable journey along … read more

Similar categories in William Least Heat-Moon's Blue Highways book and William Least Heat-Moon's Blue Highways

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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8. The Walk West: A Walk Across America 2

By: Peter Jenkins , Barbara Jenkins , Barbara Jenkins

3.92

Format: 98 pages,

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
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9. A Walk Across America

By: Peter Jenkins

3.92

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

Twenty-five years ago, a disillusioned young man set out on a walk across America. This is the book… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
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10. Down the River

By: Edward Abbey

3.91

Format: 160 pages,

"Be of good cheer," the war-horse Edward Abbey advises, "the military-industrial state will soon co… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • adventure

11. I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away

By: Bill Bryson

3.42

Format: None pages,

After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with … read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

12. The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America

By: Bill Bryson

3.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

'I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to' And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des … read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

13. Desert Solitaire

By: Edward Abbey

4.00

Format: None pages,

When Desert Solitairewas first published in 1968, it became the focus of a nationwide cult. Rude an… read more

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14. The Last Season

By: Eric Blehm

3.14

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

To pick up The Last Seasonis to lose oneself in a mesmerizing story about a place few could survive… read more

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15. The Man Who Walked Through Time: The Story of the First Trip Afoot Through the Grand Canyon

By: Colin Fletcher

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Colin Fletcher is a self-described "compulsive walker." It is not unusual for him to pick up a map,… read more

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16. Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West

By: Bernard DeVoto , Wallace Stegner

3.42

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

John Wesley Powell fought in the Civil War and it cost him an arm. But it didn't stop him from expl… read more

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17. A Walk in the Woods

By: Bill Bryson

3.20

Format: 160 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Subtitle: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail. The Appalachian Trail stretches from Geor… read more

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18. American Ramble: A Walk of Memory and Renewal

By: Neil King Jr.

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A stunning, revelatory memoir about a 330-mile walk from Washington, D.C. to New York City—an unfor… read more

Similar categories in Neil King Jr.'s American Ramble: A Walk of Memory and Renewal book and William Least Heat-Moon's Blue Highways

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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19. The Only Kayak: A Journey Into The Heart Of Alaska

By: Kim Heacox

4.30

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

“I live in the sunlight of friends and the shadows of glaciers.”So begins The Only Kayak, Kim Heaco… read more

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  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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20. The Search for the Genuine: Nonfiction, 1970-2015

By: Jim Harrison

4.30

Format: None pages, ebook

The first general nonfiction title in thirty years from a giant of American letters, The Search fo… read more

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  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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21. So Long as It's Wild

By: Barbara Jenkins

4.11

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The story of one author's walk across America. From the untold narrative of her impoverished Ozarks… read more

Similar categories in Barbara Jenkins's So Long as It's Wild book and William Least Heat-Moon's Blue Highways

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction

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4.08

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Tony Horwitz

3.50

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Blue Highways

William Least Heat-Moon

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Jack Kerouac

3.61

Transform Your Habits

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John Steinbeck

4.37

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Ernest Hemingway

5.00

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