Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures: Volume 2

<b><b>&#147;L&#146;Amour is popular for all the right reasons. His books embody heroic virtues that seem to matter now more than ever.&#148;&#151;<i>The</i> <i>Wall Street Journal</i></b> <br><br>More unpublished works from the archives of Louis L&#146;Amour: complete short stories partial novels treatments and notes that will transport readers from the Western frontier to India China and even the future.</b><br><br>Exploring the creative process of an American original the Louis L&#146;Amour&#146;s Lost Treasures series will uncover the hidden history behind the author&#146;s best known novels . . . and his most mysterious and ambitious unfinished works.<br><br>In this second volume Beau L&#146;Amour examines how his father made the transition from struggling pulp writer to successful novelist and uses his father&#146;s notes journal entries and correspondence to continue the process of seeking out how and why many of these never-before-seen manuscripts were written as well as speculating about the ways they might have ended.<br><br> These selections include the beginnings of a post-apocalyptic science fiction tale a proposal for a nonfiction project based on the life of Renaissance-era traveler Ibn Batuta and two chapters of a historical novel set in India about the origin of L'Amour's well-known Talon family.<br><br> At the other end of the spectrum are classic adventures such as &#147;In the Measure of Time&#148; a chance encounter set on the high seas and a science fiction film treatment set in Mexico as well as seventeen chapters of a novel that reappears throughout Louis&#146;s journals and letters and speaks to his fascination with post-revolutionary 1950s China leading him so far as to correspond with the Dalai Lama.<br><br> With rare photographs and commentary this book further maps the journey L&#146;Amour embarked upon to become one of our greatest storytellers and the diverse realms to which his imagination traveled making him a true American pioneer.