Description
This candid memoir traces a remarkable journey from a childhood in North Dakota to a life spent working as a laborer, miner, seaman, prizefighter, and wanderer before finding success as a writer. Along the way, dangerous encounters, hunger, hard labor, and life on the road become an unconventional education—one shaped as much by experience as by an insatiable appetite for books. The narrative celebrates self-education, curiosity, resilience, and the belief that every place and person can offer a lesson. Vivid, reflective, and plainspoken, it offers an illuminating glimpse into the adventurous life and independent mind behind one of America’s beloved storytellers.
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paperback
Bantam
Published Jan 1, 1989
232 pages
ISBN: 0553057030
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Details
First Published
1989
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Education of a Wandering Man by Louis L'Amour.