Smoke from this altar / Louis L'Amour.
Smoke From This Altar, a book that has become legendary among Louis L'Amour readers, is the very first book L'Amour ever published. It appeared, to great critical praise, for sale only in Oklahoma bookstores more than fifty years ago. Since then it has become the most sought-after L'Amour title of all, with the few circulating copies from the small print run commanding top dollar from rare book collectors. Now, at last, it is being published nationally in this beautiful keepsake Bantam edition. It was in Smoke From This Altar that L'Amour first gave public voice to his now-celebrated spirit of wanderlust. Like the short stories in his classic, million-copy-selling Yondering, and his best-selling memoir Education of a Wandering Man, the poems in this book are inspired by his experiences and memories of his journeys across oceans and continents. It is vintage L'Amour storytelling--in verse--about nature, the land, and the people who loved and braved it. Smoke From This Altar begins with a newly written introduction by his wife Kathy in which she discusses the special place this work has held in the L'Amours' lives. In concludes with twenty previously uncollected L'Amour poems selected by his family.
Record details
- ISBN: 0553073494
- ISBN: 9780553073492
- ISBN: 0553063200
- Physical Description: xiv, 75 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: New York : Bantam Books, 1990.
Content descriptions
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Out of the ocean depths soundlessly moving -- Smoke from this altar -- Interlude: Hongkong -- Words from a wanderer -- To Cleone: In Budapest -- I'm a stranger here -- Without this land -- Life -- Biography in stone -- An ember in the dark -- Nocturne -- Wings over waves -- A handful of stars -- Winter -- Secret pass -- Banked fires -- North Cape -- To you, Jeannine -- Decadence -- Love out of season -- After tomorrow -- Yacodhapura -- Steppe -- To Giordano Bruno -- The weary one -- Hildebrand -- Enchanted mesas -- My three friends -- In an old temple -- The sea, off Vanua Levu -- If there is beauty -- Ship across the sky -- McVey -- I came to create -- Lines to a season -- I shall go back -- I haven't read Gone With The Wind -- In protest -- Question -- A wail from a pulpeteer -- Old Jerry -- Picture -- Call of the Tropics -- The gladiator -- The pioneer -- Tranquillity -- Twilight -- Forest people -- Winter winds -- Let it snow -- Then came spring -- Rain -- Mutation -- To one without faith -- Rose of memory -- Let me forget.
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Available copies
- 23 of 23 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library.
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- 0 current holds with 23 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jacksonville Main Library | 811.52 LAM (Text) | 36015000730115 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
