The author talks here about how he likes to carry a walking stick with him when he goes for his strolls. I think my favorite essay was With A Good Stick In Hand from 2002. Crossing Kansas (1988)was both funny and thought-provoking, with its meditation on the whys and wherefores of American travel. I did enjoy Up Among The Roadside Gods (1987) about a trip to Japan, and also The Nose Of Chaac about Yucatan Mexico. Written in 1987 when a micro-brewery was still a new idea, it was informative but since I am not a beer drinker, I did not thrill to the descriptions of the chase for the perfect bottle of suds. I could not get interested in the long piece about craft beer, for example. But like in any such book, I enjoyed some and skimmed others. Published by University of Missouri, February 2020, Hardcover, 338 pages.I have read (pre-GR) at least three other titles by this author so I was looking forward to this collection of various essays that had appeared in magazines over the years. His first work of fiction, Celestial Mechanics appeared in 2017. These six major books have never been out of print. Here, There, Elsewhere brings together a collection of his short-form reportage about places around the world. In Roads to Quoz, Heat-Moon sets out for a half-dozen peculiar American destinations that have long intrigued him. River-Horse gives an account of his four-month sea-to-sea voyage across the United States on rivers, lakes, and canals. His second work, PrairyErth, is a narrative exploration into a corner of the great tallgrass prairie in eastern Kansas. His first book, Blue Highways, tells of a 13,000-mile journey around America on back roads. He lives in Missouri on an old tobacco farm he's returning to forest.

William Least Heat-Moon, pen name of William Trogdon, is of English, Irish, and Osage ancestry. Traveling by foot, horse, stage, canal boat, and steamer, Nathaniel and Nicodemus explore the backcountry and forge a deep friendship as they encounter a host of memorable characters who reveal the nature of the American experiment, one still in its early stages but already under the stress of social injustices and economic inequities. Disturbed and angered by the selling of human lives, he offers to help the young man escape, a criminal action that will put the fugitive slave and physician into flight from both the law and opportunistic slave hunters. One night in a boardinghouse he discovers under his bed a runaway slave. When arriving in Baltimore, Trennant stumbles onto its slave market and witnesses the horrors of human bondage. In 1848 an English physician, Nathaniel Trennant, accepts an offer to serve as doctor on a ship carrying immigrants to America. O America Discovery in a New Land by William Least Heat-Moon

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