L'Amour, Louis <br/><br/>
Education of a wandering man / 
Louis L'Amour. 
 - New York, NY  Bantam  1989 
 - 232 p.  16 pages of portraits  23 cm 
<br/><br/> D., 9/03 
<br/><br/> 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 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0-553-05703-0 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>L'Amour, Louis 1908-1988--Biography<br/>Novelists American--20th century--Biography
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>B