Education of a wandering man A Memoir
From his decision to leave school at fifteen to roam the world, to his recollections of life as a hobo on the Southern Pacific Railroad, as a cattle skinner in Texas, as a merchant seaman in Singapore and the West Indies, and as an itinerant bare-knuckled prizefighter across small-town America, here is Louis L'Amour's memoir of his lifelong love affair with learning—from books, from yondering, and from some remarkable men and women—that shaped him as a storyteller and as a man. Like classic L'Amour fiction, Education of a Wandering Man mixes authentic frontier drama—such as the author's desperate efforts to survive a sudden two-day trek across the blazing Mojave desert—with true-life characters like Shanghai waterfront toughs, desert prospectors, and cowboys whom Louis L'Amour met while traveling the globe. At last, in his own words, this is a story of a one-of-a-kind life lived to the fullest . . . a life that inspired the books that will forever enable us to relive our glorious frontier heritage.
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- ISBN: 9780553899085
- Physical Description: 1 online resource
- Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2008.
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Target Audience Note: | Text Difficulty 8 - Text Difficulty 9. 1150 Lexile. |
Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. New York : Bantam, 2008. Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 2604 KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 4332 KB) or Kobo app or compatible Kobo device (file size: N/A KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB). |
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Subject: | Nonfiction Biography & Autobiography Education Travel |
Genre: | Electronic books. |
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