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American author and advocate of socialism Jack London (1876-1916) wrote popular adventure stories and social tracts based on unusual personal experiences. At their best, his works are powerful and moving narratives. Jack London, in full John Griffith Lon...

Jack London has been recognized as one of the most dynamic figures in American literature. Sailor, hobo, Klondike argonaut, social crusader, war correspondent, scientific farmer, self-made millionaire, global traveler, and adventurer, London captured the...

"No literary historian but sooner or later must reckon with Jack London," Fred Lewis Pattee asserts in The Development of the American Short Story (1923), for "he represented more than an individual: he was the product of a literary condition in America....

He was hit by a car in Colorado, attacked by a crocodile in Australia, detained as a suspected spy in Egypt and survived illness and periods of despair.On Saturday, British adventurer Jason Lewis finally came home, completing a 13-year, 46,000-mile human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.The...

Out with the Golden Gate Bridge and in with "Cars."The Walt Disney Co. is going back to the drawing board to overhaul its underperforming California Adventure theme park — a project the company said Wednesday could even result in a new name for the property.The...

For a climber, the first time you lay eyes on Everest, it's hard not to think about Edmund Hillary — and try to imagine what it was like when he and Tenzing Norgay topped out on the world's highest peak shortly before noon on May...

Officially, Route 66 no longer exists. It was replaced by the federal highway system beginning in the 1950s _ by I-55 from Chicago to St. Louis; by I-44 from St. Louis to Oklahoma City; by I-40 from Oklahoma...