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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....

For Romeo "Romi" Garduce, mountain climbing isn't just a hobby, it's also his way of giving back to the community and the environment. As a Filipino mountaineer, Romeo "Romi" or "Garduch" Garduce is unique in many ways. One of his colleagues says he's...

Adventure, suspense at heart of 'True North' By DIANE DANIEL Boston Globe Sunday, March 19, 2000 True North. By Kimberly Kafka. Dutton. 273 pages. $23.95. Ah, springtime in Alaska -- when daylight returns, grizzlies and mosquitoes wander in search...

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...