San Antonio College Library

In the Devil May Care, popular historian and travel writer Tony Horwitz selects from the American National Biography fifty stirring lives of little-known adventurers who followed in no one's foot-steps and truly blazed their own trails. Filled with accounts of brushes with death and moments of glory, this collection offers a glimpse into the lives of historic men and women who brazenly faced danger as they followed their wanderlust and their convictions...

Zane Grey was a disappointed aspirant to major league baseball and an unhappy dentist when he belatedly decided to take up writing at the age of thirty. He went on to become the most successful American authors of the 1920s, a significant figure in the early development of the film industry, and vital to the early popularity of the western.

"In his early thirties Justin Alexander Shetler, quit his job at a tech startup and set out on a global journey: across the United States by motorcycle, then down to South America, and on to the Philippines, Thailand, and Nepal, in search of authentic experiences and meaningful encounters, while also documenting his travels on Instagram. His enigmatic character and magnetic personality gained him a devoted following who lived vicariously through his...