Maybe “Don Quixote” would qualify as a Spanish road book. I don’t know of any Italian road books or British road books or French road books or Spanish road books. PHILIP CAPUTO: The road book is a peculiarly American genre. They had a wide-ranging conversation, condensed and edited here, covering their many years of travel. Caputo traveled to Missouri to compare notes with one of the most acclaimed travel writers of our time, William Least Heat-Moon, the author of “Blue Highways” and “PrairyErth (A Deep Map).” His latest book is “Here, There, Elsewhere: Stories From the Road” (Little, Brown), a collection of short essays plucked from 30-plus years of travel. His new book chronicles his trip in an Airstream trailer from one corner of North America to the other. Caputo is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of “A Rumor of War,” a memoir of the Vietnam War. One of the newest entrants in the genre is “The Longest Road: Overland in Search of America, From Key West to the Arctic Ocean” by Philip Caputo (Holt). The road book has a long and glorious history in the annals of literature, starting perhaps with “The Odyssey” (assuming you’re willing to consider the sea as a road).
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