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He is a contemporary Missouri travel writer, and author of a Bestselling Trilogy of topographical U.S. travel writing. ''Blue Highways'', a Cult Classic , is a chronicle of a three month-long road trip that Heat-Moon took throughout the United States in 1978 , after losing his teaching job and being left by his wife. He travelled 13,000 miles, as much as possible on secondary roads (often drawn on Maps in blue) and tried to avoid cities, living out of the back of his Van " Ghost Dancing " and visiting small towns such as Nameless, Tennessee , Hachita, New Mexico , and Bagley, Minnesota in an attempt to find places in America that were untouched by Fast Food chains and Interstate Highways . The book chronicles the people he talked to in roadside Cafés as well as his personal soul-searching. ''PrairyErth'' is a Deep Map account of Chase County, Kansas , and ''River Horse'' is an account of a four-month coast-to-coast Boat trip across the U.S., using only the nation's waterways. Besides the trilogy, he also wrote ''Columbus in the Americas'', a brief Historical book about Christopher Columbus . BIBLIOGRAPHY
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