num_pages: 452
description: Since its publication in 1963, Sterling Hayden's autobiography, Wanderer, has been surrounded by controversy. The author was at the peak of his earning power as a movie star when he suddenly quit. He walked out on Hollywood, walked out of a shattered marriage, defied the courts, broke as an outlaw, set sail with his four children in the schooner Wanderer--bound for the South Seas. His attempt to escape launched his autobiography. It is the candid, sometimes painfully revealing confession of a man who scrutinized his every self-defeat and self-betrayal in the unblinking light of conscience.
language: English
title: Wanderer
titlecomplete: Wanderer
genres: Adventure, Classics, Autobiography, Philosophy, Travel, Film, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 616
publisher: Sheridan House