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Education of a Wandering Man: A Memoir
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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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Additional information
| Publisher | Bantam Books Inc, Illustrated edition (1 Jan. 1920) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 272 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0553286528 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0553286526 |
| Dimensions | 10.52 x 1.96 x 17.4 cm |
by tina piper
I was put onto reading this after researching the story of Christopher McCandless aka “Alexander supertramps” touching story, into the wild. In which this book played a part in his decision to abandon society’s constraints. And through such found the recollection of one man’s staggering life style and his healthy obsession with education. I would honestly recommend this book to all, truly enjoyable with some very intelligent concepts to be taken away with you.
by Amazon Customer
A fascinating read . Self educated no doubt but also very talented . His travels and respect for other cultures and people , when it wasn’t politically correct at that time stood out . He also predicted correctly that China would again become a great power .
by John Loveday
This is one of the most surprising books I have ever read.For many years I accepted the idea that Louis L’Amour was simply a writer of popular Westerns, then, on beginning to read him, I realized what an under-estimation that was.
As Education of a Wandering Man quickly shows, Louis L’Amour was an author with a very exceptional understanding of human motivation and achievement, and a notable ability to bring it to the written page. In addition to writing with loving authenticity of the American West, he had an amazingly varied and voracious reading, much of it simply mentioned in passing, but sometimes with incisive comment, recording here a love affair with the world and its wealth of books.
He was, as he says, not just a writer about the Western frontier, but was interested in any frontier, geographical, historical, scientific, and those of the human imagination. “My first stories were not of the West, but of the Far East and the prize ring,” he tells us. At the time of writing them, his daily reading was of Francis Bacon, Plato, Tolstoy, Kant, Herbert Spencer and Shakespeare, as his careful lists show..
This is one of the most “down to earth” books I know, full of encounters with people of all sorts, in all sorts of places, wise, quotable on almost every page. Louis L’Amour could be at ease with most people, from hobo to professor, and at ease with himself. On these pages he is highly congenial company.
by Ellis Hammond
Really interesting, story of his life from living a rather stable life at home to then moving around everywhere then resettling to write, which is a slow intergration.
The only bad points are when he talks about how many books he’s read as if he’s bragging but other than that it’s a great read.
by danno
I greatly enjoyed reading this book, L’Amour was a great storyteller and the stories of experiences that comprised his life are here well presented and well worth the read.
by paul d.
A wonderful book written by a modest yet hugely talented man.highly recommended.
by Sharon Loveday
This gentle meandering story of the author’s life through the books he read while growing up and travelling, is beautifully written. It is full of wisdom.
by Amazon Customer
Swift delivery. Item as described. Bit of a strange book but still quite interesting.