Book

Heat Moon, William Least.

Here, there, elsewhere : stories from the road / William Least Heat-Moon.

1st ed.

New York : Little Brown and Co., 2013.

xi, 402 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Heat Moon draws together for the first time his greatest short-form travel writing including his funny and touching adventures in Japan, England, Italy, Mexico, Long Island, Oregon, Arizona, and more.

Heat Moon, William Least -- Travel.

Voyages and travels.

Thitherward -- The here within there -- Dosojin -- Up among the roadside gods -- Second draft -- A glass of handmade -- Putting legs back on a story -- A little tour in Yoknapatawpha County -- A conducer -- Oysters and American union -- Yucatán -- The nose of Chaac -- Beyond cross-purposes -- Crossing Kansas -- All knowledge human and cosmic -- Out east on the North Fork -- A dust ball under the bed -- Of time and a river -- To explain delight -- With a good stick in hand -- The Manichean -- The old land of misfortune -- In the guise of fiction -- The last Thanksgiving of Whispers-to-Hawks -- Approaching the ineffable -- Prairie and plain -- To go solo -- A fallen yew, an oaken pillar, a forgotten birch -- The great miscellaneous -- A residue of history -- Prolegomenon -- Not far out of Tullahoma -- A new order -- Designing a corporate potlatch for the next century -- A trio of postcards -- Just south of Ultima Thule -- Sounded by trumpets silent -- Writing PrairyErth -- The 3,170th county -- The smoked ciscoes of Gitche-Gumee -- The Because-It's-There Association -- A land for the resolutely curious -- Anchovies and olives -- Morning in Manarola -- Something of a firefall -- Wandering Yosemite -- One sweet talker -- Into the antipodes -- A criminal to remain anonymous -- On the Staked Plain -- Assonance from the upper Missouri -- The pencil makers -- Why do it so often (and in so many ways) -- The classic American road trip -- Bipedal kaleidoscopes -- Pictures from the West Country.

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