Title: Education of a wandering man /
Authors: L'Amour, Louis,
Date: 1989
Publisher: Bantam,
Physical description: vii, 232 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: P
Abstract: 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-
Subject headings (LCSH): Biographies.; L'Amour, Louis, 1908-1988--Biography.; L'Amour, Louis, 1908-1988.; Novelists, American--20th century--Biography; Western stories--Authorship.