Hauptkatalog BMS Baumaschinen GmbH Education of a Wandering Man. 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 learningfrom books, from yondering, and from some remarkable men and womenthat shaped him as a storyteller and as a man. Like classic L'Amour fiction, Education of a Wandering Man mixes authentic frontier dramasuch as the author's desperate efforts to survive a sudden two day trek across the blazing Mojave desertwith 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.