{"product_id":"lost-treasures-volume-2-9780425284919","title":"Lost Treasures: Volume 2","description":"\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublisher: Random House Publishing Group\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublished: 2020\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Mass Market Paperback\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePages: 656\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLanguage: English\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eISBN: 9780425284919\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDimensions: 17.27 x 10.67 x 2.54 cm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWeight: 0.236 kg\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSynopsis: \u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e���L���Amour is popular for all the right reasons. His books embody heroic virtues that seem to matter now more than ever.������\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMore unpublished works from the archives of Louis L���Amour: complete short stories, partial novels, treatments, and notes that will transport readers from the Western frontier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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExploring 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e With rare photographs and commentary, this book 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"RANDOM HOUSE US","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040120537335,"sku":"9780425284919","price":194.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0944\/3973\/5543\/files\/10986383482339.jpg?v=1787776693","url":"https:\/\/www.2027textbooks.co.za\/products\/lost-treasures-volume-2-9780425284919","provider":"2027Textbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}