San Antonio College Library

Collects work from ten twentieth-century poets, and features poems from Nancy Kenney Connolly, Tony Zurlo, Marian Haddad, Dillon McKinsey, John Herndon, and others; and includes brief biographies of the poets.

This video is a documentary portrait of Soviet poet Joseph Brodsky, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and one of the world's most extraordinary poets and essayists. Filmed on location in the United States, Italy, and Russia, the video follows Brodsky's life through his Kafkaesque trial, his exile, and his arrival in the United States. Recordings of Brodsky reading some of his poems highlight some of the prominent themes of his work: exile and...

"Captain Cook Rediscovered is the first modern study to orient Captain James Cook's career from a North American vantage. Although Cook is inextricably linked to the South Pacific in the popular imagination, his crowning navigational and scientific achievements took place in the polar regions. David L. Nicandri acknowledges the cartographic accomplishments of the Australasian first voyage but focuses on the second- and third-voyage discovery missions...

"Nineteenth-century European astronomers tried for decades to explain the variations in their careful astronomical observations. But where the best minds in Europe failed, an intellectual upstart from America succeeded. In 1891 Seth Carlo Chandler Jr., an actuary for a Boston insurance company with no formal education in astronomy, shocked the international scientific community by announcing that he had solved the problem and that an inexpensive instrument...

After reading an 1836 newspaper account of a shipwreck and its two survivors, Edgar Allan Poe penned his only novel, "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket," the story of a stowaway on a Nantucket whaleship who finds himself enmeshed in the dark side of life at sea: mutiny, cannibalism, savagery--even death. Because Pym encounters dangerous mysterious sea creatures and strange exotic animals, the novel has the characteristics of science...