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Education of a wandering man / Louis L'Amour.
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-
Record details
- ISBN: 0553057030 :
- ISBN: 9780553057034
- Physical Description: vii, 232 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : Bantam, 1989.
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| General Note: | Publisher, publishing date and paging may vary. |
| Target Audience Note: | 1150L Lexile |
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| Subject: | L'Amour, Louis, 1908-1988. Novelists, American > 20th century > Biography. Western stories > Authorship. |
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- 48 of 48 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Rolla Public Library | BIO LAM LAM (Text) | 38256000260954 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
