Having pulled off the incredible feat of traveling the entire world—largely by train—in the span of seven months, author Charles J. Gillis undertakes another ambitious journey in Another Summer. This epic tour involves Alaska, Yellowstone, and much of the Pacific Northwest. Gillis' complicated itinerary and soul-stirring descriptions of the unspoiled landscape will enthrall armchair travelers.

If you had unlimited funds, an insatiable lust for travel, and months of leisure time at your disposal, what would you do? In this detailed travelogue, author Charles J. Gillis recounts a round-the-world trip he took in the late nineteenth century, when long-term travel arrangements took much more detailed planning than simply calling up a travel agent. Along the way, he encounters fires, surly locals, and dozens of other obstacles.

College curriculums that were once centered on instruction in the classics of Western civilization have become smorgasbords where almost anything qualifies as a course in the liberal arts and where political conformity is enforced by professors. Stanford University, caving in to demands from the Black Student Union ("We don't want to read any more dead white guys"), removed Homer, Dante, Luther, Darwin, and Freud from its course on Western civilization.