• Description: William Least Heat-Moon, at the age of 38 and after separating from his wife, sets off on a journey across the United States in an old van. This experience becomes the core of one of the travel literature classics, Blue Highways, first published in 1982. In 1999, the author releases another book narrating the adventures of a peculiar journey made in 1995: crossing the United States using waterways
  • Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Least Heat-Moon William
  • Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
  • Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1939-
  • Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Diversi, Différents
  • Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: USA
  • Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Least_Heat-Moon
  • Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4020069
  • Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Least Heat-Moon W., Nikawa : diario di bordo di una navigazione attraverso l’America, Torino : Einaudi, 2002.
Precursori, Forerunners, Précurseurs
Viaggi stravaganti, Weird travels, Voyages insolites
Globetrotter contemporanei, Contemporary globetrotters, Globetrotteurs contemporains
Personaggi fittizi, Fictional character, Personnages de fiction

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