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From his choice to leave school at fifteen to wander the planet, to his memories of life as a hobo to the Southern Pacific Railway, like a cows skinner in Texas, like a merchant seaman in Singapore and the West Indies, and being an itinerant bare-knuckled prizefighter across small-town America, listed here is Louis L'Amour's memoir of his life-long romance with understanding--from books, from yondering, and from some amazing men and women--that formed him as a storyteller and as a guy. Like traditional L'Amour misinformation, Education of a Wandering Man blends genuine frontier crisis--including the writeris determined attempts to survive a quick two-day trek over the raging Mojave desert--with true-life figures like Shanghai waterfront toughs, desert prospectors, and boys whom Louis L'Amour fulfilled while touring the world. Finally, in their own terms, this can be a tale of the one-of-a-kind life lived to the fullest. .