Education of a Wandering Man
Categories: Biographies & Memoirs
Western novelist Louis L'Amour describes his lifelong self-education after leaving school at fifteen to roam the world. He recounts working as a hobo, cattle skinner, merchant seaman and boxer, and reading constantly wherever he went. The memoir is a celebration of books and learning, with lists of what he read, and a portrait of a writer formed by hard experience.
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- Shane Parrish: “ L’Amour is known as the the King of the Western. He wrote dozens of historically accurate Westerns that depicted life on the frontier, at a time when many frontier men and women and their kin were still alive.”