Last of the Breed (Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures)

ByLouis L'Amour

Release Date: 1986-06-01
Genre: Action & Adventure

Score: 4.5

4.5

From 211 Ratings

Description

“For sheer adventure L’Amour is in top form.”—Kirkus Reviews

Here is the kind of authentically detailed epic novel that has become Louis L’Amour’s hallmark. It is the compelling story of U.S. Air Force Major Joe Mack, a man born out of time. When his experimental aircraft is forced down in Russia and he escapes a Soviet prison camp, he must call upon the ancient skills of his Indian forebears to survive the vast Siberian wilderness. Only one route lies open to Mack: the path of his ancestors, overland to the Bering Strait and across the sea to America. But in pursuit is a legendary tracker, the Yakut native Alekhin, who knows every square foot of the icy frontier—and who knows that to trap his quarry he must think like a Sioux.

Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures is a project created to release some of the author’s more unconventional manuscripts from the family archives.

In Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures: Volumes 1, Beau L’Amour takes the reader on a guided tour through many of the finished and unfinished short stories, novels, and treatments that his father was never able to publish during his lifetime. L’Amour’s never-before-seen first novel, No Traveller Returns, faithfully completed for this program, is a voyage into danger and violence on the high seas. These exciting publications will be followed by Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures: Volume 2.

Additionally, many beloved classics will be rereleased with an exclusive Lost Treasures postscript featuring previously unpublished material, including outlines, plot notes, and alternate drafts. These postscripts tell the story behind the stories that millions of readers have come to know and cherish.

Reviews

Very well written
5
By Plmgf
My first Louis La’mour book and probably the third time I’ve read it. Each time I find something else to remember. Very relaxing
Last of the Breed
5
By Slow-but-steady
My favorite book. I’ve read it many times. It is a thrilling adventure. It is captivating. Very hard to put it down.
Thrilling moments
3
By Rika1974
A good book. Mostly very active moments. Others not so much ... worth it.