More unpublished works from the archives of Louis L''Amour: complete short stories, partial novels, treatments, and notes that will transport readers from the Western frontier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.
In this second volume, Beau L''Amour continues to uncover how and why many of his fathers never-before-seen manuscripts were written--and gives us a glimpse into the plans his father had in store for them, using notes, journal entries, and correspondences. These twenty-one selections reflect L''Amour''s vision and virtuosity, including the beginnings of a post-apocalyptic science fiction tale, a proposal for a nonfiction project based on the life of Renaissance scholar 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 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 speak with the Dalai Lama.
With rare photographs and commentary, this book further maps the journey one man embarked upon to become one of our greatest storytellers and the diverse realms to which his imagination travelled, making him a true American pioneer.
