Education of a Wandering Man

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.