Poverty Bill, SASS# 45790 Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 Howdy, have a nice book for sale. "Education of a Wandering Man" A Memoir by Louis L'Amour introduction by Daniel J. Boorstin "Shortly before his death in June 1988, Louis L'Amour completed writing his most unique adventure story: a personal reflection on his lifelong love affair with learning. In Education Of A Wandering Man, he 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, L'Amour writes for the first time of his growing up in Jamestown, North Dakota, of his 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, L'Amour skinned cattle in Texas, worked as a circus roustabout and a mine caretaker, won small-town prize-fighting exhibitions, hobed actoss 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 L'Amour novels and short stories that preceded it, Eduacation Of A Wandering Man has its share of frontier drama-such as the author's desperate two-day trek across the blazing Mojave Desert-and robust characters ranging from Shanghai waterfront toughs to itinerant desert prospectors. All this ultimantely informed and inspired the books that have made L'Amour one of the most widely read authors of our time. Ever both teacher and storyteller Louis L'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 testament-part memoir, part reflection-in which the author bequeaths to us a most wonderful legacy of the "education of a wandering man": a life-lived to the fullest through the neverending quest for knowledge." copyright 1989 6 1/2" x 9 1/4" tall 232 pages book and dustjacket are in near excellent condition $15.00 shipped to you (media rate) in the U.S.A. SOLD to Marshal Flagg If you are interested or need more info. please post here on the wire. Thanks for look'n. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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