| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0553057030 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
921 L'Am L'Am |
| Item number |
48 |
| 092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
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| Classification number |
921 L'Am L'Am |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
L'Amour, Louis |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Education of a wandering man / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Louis L'Amour |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Bantam Books |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
1989 |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
vii, 232 p. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
In this his most personal book ever, L'Amour writes for the first time of his growing up in Jamestown, North Dakota, of his parents who instilled in him a love of the printed and spoken word, and of his decision to leave school at fifteen to make the world his classroom. |
| Expansion of summary note |
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 learning--from books, from yondering, and from some remarkable men and women--that shaped him as a storyteller and as a man. Like classic L'Amour fiction, Education of a Wandering Man mixes authentic frontier drama--such as the author's desperate efforts to survive a sudden two-day trek across the blazing Mojave desert--with 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. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE |
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| Information code or alphabet |
60133 |
| 600 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
L'Amour, Louis |
| Dates associated with a name |
1908-1988 |
| Title of a work |
Biography |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Novelists, American |
| Source of heading or term |
Biography |
| Chronological subdivision |
20th century |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Western stories Authorship. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
sw 900 - 999 |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
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