William Least Heat-Moon je americký cestovateľský autor s anglickými, írskymi a koreňmi z Národa Osagov. Je autorom úspešnej trilógie topografických cestopisov po USA. Jeho diela sa ponárajú do amerického terénu a kultúry, zachytávajú esenciu miest a ich obyvateľov. Jeho písanie sa vyznačuje bystrým pozorovaním a jedinečným pohľadom na americký vidiek.
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.
A Journey into America
Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads. William Least Heat-Moon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about "those little towns that get on the map--if they get on at all--only because some cartographer has a blank space to fill in: Remote, Oregon; Simplicity, Virginia; Whynot, Mississippi." His adventures, his discoveries, and his recollections of the extraordinary people he encountered along the way amout to a revelation of the true American experience.