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Adventurous memoir celebrating lifelong learning, travel.
If you're drawn to tales of freedom and adventure, Louis L'Amour's "Education of a Wandering Man" could resonate with you. Imagine sitting by a crackling campfire, listening to a world-weary traveler recount his life's story: escapades on railroads, encounters with cowboys, and lessons learned under the vast skies. That's what this memoir feels like—engrossing, raw, and filled with a thirst for knowledge and the spirit of the frontier. It's not just a recount of adventures but an ode to the art of living fully.
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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ISBN: 9780553286526
Authors:
Louis L'Amour
Publisher: Bantam
Date of Publication: 1990-12-01
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 4.06
(rated by 5084 readers)
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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.
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Adventurous memoir celebrating lifelong learning, travel.
If you're drawn to tales of freedom and adventure, Louis L'Amour's "Education of a Wandering Man" could resonate with you. Imagine sitting by a crackling campfire, listening to a world-weary traveler recount his life's story: escapades on railroads, encounters with cowboys, and lessons learned under the vast skies. That's what this memoir feels like—engrossing, raw, and filled with a thirst for knowledge and the spirit of the frontier. It's not just a recount of adventures but an ode to the art of living fully.
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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