San Antonio College Library

Leave the world of high gas prices, unemployment, deflated 401k accounts, failing banks, the gloom and doom of twenty-four-hour news, and take a journey to distant lands. You won't need your passport to experience the trip of a lifetime! Flying Cows of Africa: Travel Stories from Around the World is a humorous look at independent backpacking in the third world. These stories range from the strange to the bizarre and, at times, surreal events that...

Compiled from the favorite trips of National Geographic's travel writers, Journeys of a Lifetime spans the globe to highlight the best of the world's most famous and lesser known sojourns. It presents an incredible diversity of possibilities, from ocean cruises around Antarctica to horse treks in the Andes. Every continent and every possible form of transport is covered ... scores of creative ideas: trekking the heights of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania...

The travel writer shares his essays on a host of his favorite destinations, including Hong Kong, Maine, Africa, and the Pacific islands.

Journal of Horace Greeley's journey from New York to San Francisco in 1859. "A champion of numerous causes in the mid-nineteenth century, Horace Greeley is probably best remembered today for the slogan "Go West, young man." As the editor of the New York Tribune, a newspaper which had acquired national influence, Greeley could place his views on any subject before a large audience. For a decade before the Civil War he considered the proposal to construct...

The author of this enchanting, exuberant book has been called "America's most vocal and provocative bookman," as well as the "most literate, readable, and perhaps most controversial librarian." His unique gift for communicating his enthusiasm for books, music, and travel in these warm, lively essays opens new worlds to the reader. Powell's earlier books have been about the Book (the little package), book collecting and reading, and the Southwest....