The World is My Home

by Jamesa.Michener (Author), JamesA.Michener (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1992

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  Paperback
  1992

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  The best-selling author James Michener started life as a small-town Pennsylvania boy who left his foster-home at the age of 13 to hitch-hike around the country. He was 40 before he decided on writing as a career, prior to which he had been an academic, an editor and a US Navy lieutenant-commander in World War II. His first book, Tales of the South Pacific , won the Pulitzer Prize and was made into the award-winning film, South Pacific , and his subsequent novels include Hawaii , Chesapeake , Texas , The Covenant , Alaska and Caribbean . In this autobiography Michener writes of the people, places and events that have shaped his life.