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Louis L'Amour's lost treasures. Volume 2 : more mysterious stories, unfinished manuscripts, and lost notes from one of the world's most popular novelists / Louis L'Amour with Beau L'Amour.
PREVIOUS BOOK IN SERIES: NO TRAVELLER RETURNS, ISBN 9780425284445. Volume 2 of 'Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures' series includes more unpublished works from the archives of Louis LAmour: complete short stories, partial novels, treatments, and notes that will transport readers from the Western frontier to India, China, and even the future.
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- ISBN: 9780425284926 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: xxxii, 536 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Bantam Books, [2019]
- Copyright: ©2019
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | The Bastard of Brignogan: two beginnings to a historical novel -- Mac Ross: the beginning of a western novel -- Dam and timber: notes for an adventure story -- The quest for the bear: a complete adventure story -- Kills bear: the first three chapters of a frontier novel -- Ben Mallory: seventeen chapters of an adventure novel -- The death of Peter Talon: the beginning of a western novel -- The jade eaters: a treatment for a motion picture -- The freeze: the beginning of a science fiction story -- Ben Milo: the beginning of a crime story -- In the measure of time: a complete adventure story -- The Papago Kid: the beginning of a western novel -- Krak des Chevaliers: a treatment for an adventure story -- Ibn Batuta: a proposal for a nonfiction book -- Shanty: two beginnings to a western novel -- Krag Moran: the beginning of a boxing story -- Stan Duval: the beginning of a crime story -- Lowie: the beginning of a western story -- South of Panama: a treatment for an adventure story -- The rock man: notes for a television series -- Borden Chantry II: the first ten chapters of a western novel. |
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| Genre: | Western fiction. Action and adventure fiction. Short stories. Historical fiction. |
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- Baker & Taylor
A latest collection of previously unpublished writings from the archives of Louis LâAmour is comprised of short stories, partial novels, notes, journal entries and correspondences that share unique insights into his creative process. Illustrations. - Random House, Inc.
âLâAmour is popular for all the right reasons. His books embody heroic virtues that seem to matter now more than ever.ââThe Wall Street Journal
More unpublished works from the archives of Louis LâAmour: complete short stories, partial novels, treatments, and notes that will transport readers from the Western frontier to India, China, and even the future.
Exploring the creative process of an American original, the Louis LâAmourâs Lost Treasures series will uncover the hidden history behind the authorâs best known novels . . . and his most mysterious and ambitious unfinished works.
In this second volume, Beau LâAmour examines how his father made the transition from struggling pulp writer to successful novelist and uses his fatherâs notes, journal entries, and correspondence to continue the process of seeking out how and why many of these never-before-seen manuscripts were written as well as speculating about the ways they might have ended.
These selections include the beginnings of a post-apocalyptic science fiction tale, a proposal for a nonfiction project based on the life of Renaissance-era traveler Ibn Batuta, and two chapters of a historical novel set in India about the origin of L'Amour's well-known Talon family.
At the other end of the spectrum are classic adventures, such as âIn the Measure of Time,â a chance encounter set on the high seas, and a science fiction film treatment set in Mexico, as well as seventeen chapters of a novel that reappears throughout Louisâs journals and letters and speaks to his fascination with post-revolutionary 1950s China, leading him so far as to correspond with the Dalai Lama.
With rare photographs and commentary, this book further maps the journey LâAmour embarked upon to become one of our greatest storytellers and the diverse realms to which his imagination traveled, making him a true American pioneer.
