Roads to Quoz: An American Mosey (repost)
Roads to Quoz: An American Mosey By William Least Heat-Moon
Publisher: Back Bay Books 2009 | 608 Pages | ISBN: 0316067512 | EPUB | 2 MB
Publisher: Back Bay Books 2009 | 608 Pages | ISBN: 0316067512 | EPUB | 2 MB
It was almost a decade ago that Least Heat-Moon (Blue Highways) followed the trail of Lewis and Clark in River Horse; in the first section of his latest peripatetic writings, he and his wife, Q, trace the lesser-known Dunbar-Hunter Expedition of 1804 through the southern half of the Louisiana Purchase, searching out the head of the Ouachita River in Arkansas. Least Heat-Moon's fans will find this territory, and that covered in the five other journeys to places a goodly portion of the American populace would call 'nowhere,' instantly familiar, as he and various companions take digressive paths from one small opolis (where anything metro was clearly missing) to the next in search of quoz (an 18th-century word meaning anything out of the ordinary).