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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Louis Dearborn La Moore
Louis L'Amour é de origem franco-irlandesa e nasceu em 1908 em Dakota do Norte. Sempre impelido por profunda curiosidade e senso de aventura, dedicou-se às mais diferentes atividades: foi desde lenhador, domador de elefantes, vaqueiro, boxeador, marinheiro e oficial duranta a Segunda Guerra, até jornalista e pesquisador histórico. Autor de quase uma centena de livros, entre westerns e romances de aventura, sua narrativa, marcada por episódios emocionantes, privilegia como personagens, homens corajosos e resolutos, dispostos a tudo para atingir um determinado objetivo.
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Dakota do Norte, Estados Unidos