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- catalog 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-".
- catalog contributor b2691014.
- catalog created "1989.".
- catalog date "1989".
- catalog date "1989.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1989.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. [213]-242.".
- catalog description "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-".
- catalog extent "vii, 232 p., [16] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0553057030".
- catalog issued "1989".
- catalog issued "1989.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Bantam,".
- catalog subject "813/.52 20".
- catalog subject "L'Amour, Louis, 1908-1988 Biography.".
- catalog subject "L'Amour, Louis, 1908-1988.".
- catalog subject "Novelists, American 20th century Biography.".
- catalog subject "PS3523.A446 Z464 1989".
- catalog subject "Western stories Authorship.".
- catalog title "Education of a wandering man / Louis L'Amour.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".