Louis LAmours Lost Treasures Volum..., Louis LAmour
Louis LAmours Lost Treasures Volum..., Louis LAmour
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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

Author: Louis L'Amour, Beau L'Amour

Narrator: James Naughton, Jason Culp, JD Jackson

Unabridged: 19 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/19/2019


Synopsis

More unpublished works from the archives of Louis L’Amour: complete short stories, partial novels, treatments, and notes that will transport readers from the Western frontier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 L’Amour’s Lost Treasures series will uncover the hidden history behind the author’s best known novels . . . and his most mysterious and ambitious unfinished works.

In this second volume, Beau L’Amour examines how his father made the transition from struggling pulp writer to successful novelist and uses his father’s 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 “In the Measure of Time,” 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 Louis’s journals and letters and speaks to his fascination with post-revolutionary 1950s China, leading him so far as to correspond with the Dalai Lama.

This audiobook further maps the journey L’Amour embarked upon to become one of our greatest storytellers and the diverse realms to which his imagination traveled, making him a true American pioneer.

About The Author

Our foremost storyteller of the American West, Louis L'Amour has thrilled a nation by chronicling the adventures of the brave men and women who settled the frontier. There are more than three hundred million copies of his books in print around the world.Beau L'Amour is an author, art director, and editor. He has also worked in the film, television, magazine, and recording industries. Since 1988 he has been the manager of the estate of his father, Louis L'Amour.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Gretchen on January 17, 2020

I really liked this book makes you feel like you are sitting in the study with Louis L'Amour and watching as he writes and types away. There is notes about starting a new book or an idea for a new book sometimes in his handwriting, there is first chapters of stories he started, outlines, notes of hi......more

Goodreads review by Mark on November 19, 2019

In his comments following Louis L’Amour’s brisk sci-fi story fragment “The Freeze,” son Beau L’Amour notes the tale may have been inspired by the discovery in Siberia of “The Berezovka Mammoth,” which was found with grass in its teeth and mouth. The discovery suggested that the mammoth had been caug......more

Goodreads review by Skjam! on October 26, 2019

Disclaimer: I received an Advance Uncorrected Proof of this book through a Goodreads giveaway to facilitate the writing of this review. No other compensation was requested or offered. As an uncorrected proof, there will be changes made in the final product. Louis L’Amour (1908-1988) was one of the al......more

Goodreads review by Daniel on March 10, 2020

This review originally published in Looking For a Good Book. Rated 4.0 of 5 I'm the type of reader who is always fascinated by the writing process, so looking at early and unfinished works by a prolific author is something that really interests me. This is the second volume of "Lost Treasures" from t......more

Goodreads review by Roxanne on October 15, 2019

This is a GoodReads win review. I just loved this book. I was very thrilled to win this book. Louis L'Amour died in 1988 and he left behind many unfinished manuscripts. My father grew up in Los Angeles and as a teenager he worked at the movie studios as an extra and a stand in. In those years movies......more