Education of a Wandering Man: A Memoir
by Louis L'Amour (author); Daniel J. Boorstin (introduction)
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- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0553057030
- ISBN 13
- 9780553057034
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About This Item
First Bantam hardcover edition with complete print line. Tight, clean, unmarked, but the dust jacket shows some surface and edge wear, including a few scratches and soft creasing. Binding is firm.
Synopsis
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.From the Paperback edition.
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- Bookseller
- BooksGalore (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BX162-AVS-1.100
- Title
- Education of a Wandering Man
- Author
- Louis L'Amour (author); Daniel J. Boorstin (introduction)
- Format/Binding
- Sewn binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0553057030
- ISBN 13
- 9780553057034
- Publisher
- Bantam Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1989
- Pages
- 232
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biographies and Memoirs;