Education of a Wandering Man: A Memoir

Education of a Wandering Man: A Memoir
- Louis L'Amour
Shortly before his death in June 1988, Louis Lâ€™Amour completed writing his most unique adventure story: a personal reflection on his lifelong love affair with learning. Now Bantam Books proudly presents this special Centennial Edition of Education of a Wandering Man, in which Lâ€™Amour vividly recalls many of the books he read, the places he visited, and the people he met that catalyzed his evolution as a writer.

In this, his most personal book ever, Lâ€™Amour writes of growing up in Jamestown, North Dakota, of the parents who instilled in him a love of the printed and spoken word, and of his decision to leave school at fifteen to make the world his classroom. While his contemporaries attended high school, Lâ€™Amour skinned cattle in Texas, worked as a circus roustabout and a mine caretaker, won small-town prizefighting exhibitions, hoboed across Texas on the Southern Pacific, and shipped out to the West Indies, England, and Singapore as a merchant seaman. Wherever he wandered, his pockets were always bulging with books.

Like the beloved Louis Lâ€™Amour novels and short stories that preceded it, Education of a Wandering Man has its share of frontier dramaâ€”such as the authorâ€™s desperate two-day trek across the blazing Mojave Desertâ€”and robust characters, ranging from Shanghai waterfront toughs to itinerant desert prospectors. All this ultimately informed and inspired the books that have made Lâ€™Amour one of the most widely read authors of our time.

Ever both teacher and storyteller, Louis Lâ€™Amour makes his education our education, in a book filled with glorious asides on everything from hobo culture to the fate of Butch Cassidy.

Here is a testamentâ€”part memoir, part reflectionâ€”in which the author bequeaths to us a most wonderful legacy of the â€œeducation of a wandering manâ€: a life lived to the fullest through the never-ending quest for knowledge.
Country USA
Brand Bantam
Manufacturer Bantam
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9780553057034
Color Navy
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780553057034
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Bantam
Manufacturer	Bantam
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9780553057034
Color	Navy
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780553057034
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Education of a Wandering Man: A Memoir

You might also like...