About a quarter century ago, a largely unknown wanderer named William Least Heat-Moon wrote a book called <em>Blue Highways.</em> It was a travel book like no other, a book that revealed its author to be a chronicler of rare linguitic genius and empathy, a listener who knew that the small places can offer the biggest surprises. Heat-Moon, wrote one reader, was a travel writer as Faulkner was a country historian.</br></br> <em>Road to Quoz</em> is Heat-Moon's long-awaited return to America's back roads. It is a lyrical, funny, and magisterially told chronicle of American passage, a journey into the heart of a nation almost desperate for meaning beyond consumerism and self-absorption, a book that invites readers to "discover America anew." (<em>Christian Science Monitor</em>).