The complete online text of Wild Youth, Complete by Gilbert Parker.

During the two decades surrounding the turn of the century, Gilbert Parker enjoyed international fame as a novelist who romanticized Quebec and the Canadian Northwest and as a public figure who spoke for Canada and the British empire. In 1902 he was knig...

TAKAO NATIONAL PARK, Japan - There was a compass on a cord looped around his neck and a first-aid kit strapped to his belt. He was a salaryman about to spend a sunny spring day in Japan's great outdoors, and he was taking no...

Helen Wong's journey of discovery took her deep into the cities of the Old South, where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led bus boycotts and lunch-counter sit-ins, and where the high-school student received the message of the civil rights movement straight from those...