Education of a Wandering Man: A Memoir, (Paperback)

from Helm

Very entertaining work that details many of the events that obviously influenced the author's later works. Also includes a listing of books read by the author during his "yondering years". This lis...

from jclemence

Louis L'Amour's poem, "I Haven't Read Gone with the Wind," includes the line, "For every book that they have read, I've read forty-nine." When L'Amour penned this, he was not speaking hyperbolicall...

from lamour

This man really did live a life that his heroes live in his fiction. The chapter that describes his two day walk across the Mojave Desert with only a can of peaches for survival is worth the price ...

from BookAngel_a

In this book, L'Amour tells the story of how books gave him the education he didn't get in school. For personal and economic reasons (this was during the depression) he had to leave school and home...

from SDaisy

This is an interesting, well-written book about the famed author of Western novels and short stories, Louis L'Amour. In this book, L'Amour talks about how he left school because he felt they could ...