"A remarkable life story, reminiscent of Out of Africa ."-- Vogue In 1949, Rosamond Halsey Carr, a young fashion illustrator living in New York City, accompanied her dashing hunter-explorer husband to what was then the Belgian Congo. When the marriage fell apart, she decided to stay on in neighboring Rwanda, as the manager of a flower plantation. Land of a Thousand Hills is...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 罗莎蒙德·哈尔西·卡尔（1912—2006）是一位美国的人道主义者和作家，也是卢旺达最后一位外国种植园主。她在卢旺达经营着一所儿童孤儿院，直至2006年去世。 安·霍华德·哈尔西是罗莎蒙德的侄女，为撰写这本回忆录，曾在非洲居住过一段时间，与姑妈一起工作。她现居美国宾夕法尼亚州的唐宁敦。 【译者简介】 陈薇薇，译者，从事翻译十余载，译有《法国简史》《北方的观念》《蒙娜丽莎传奇》《概率统治世界》等。

【作者简介】 罗莎蒙德·哈尔西·卡尔（1912—2006）是一位美国的人道主义者和作家，也是卢旺达最后一位外国种植园主。她在卢旺达经营着一所儿童孤儿院，直至2006年去世。 安·霍华德·哈尔西是罗莎蒙德的侄女，为撰写这本回忆录，曾在非洲居住过一段时间，与姑妈一起工作。她现居美国宾夕法尼亚州的唐宁敦。 【译者简介】 陈薇薇，译者，从事翻译十余载，译有《法国简史》《北方的观念》《蒙娜丽莎传奇》《概率统治世界》等。

【作者简介】 罗莎蒙德·哈尔西·卡尔（1912—2006）是一位美国的人道主义者和作家，也是卢旺达最后一位外国种植园主。她在卢旺达经营着一所儿童孤儿院，直至2006年去世。 安·霍华德·哈尔西是罗莎蒙德的侄女，为撰写这本回忆录，曾在非洲居住过一段时间，与姑妈一起工作。她现居美国宾夕法尼亚州的唐宁敦。 【译者简介】 陈薇薇，译者，从事翻译十余载，译有《法国简史》《北方的观念》《蒙娜丽莎传奇》《概率统治世界》等。

"A Thousand Miles of Dreams" is an evocative and intimate biography of two Chinese sisters who took very different paths in their quest to be independent women. Ling Shuhao arrived in Cleveland in 1925 to study medicine in the middle of a U.S. crackdown on Chinese immigrant communities, and her effort to assimilate began. She became an American named Amy, while her sister Ling ...(展开全部)

*For the bibliography mentioned in the book, click here. A Thousand Miles of Dreams is an evocative and intimate biography of two Chinese sisters who took very different paths in their quests to be independent women. Ling Shuhao arrived in Cleveland in 1925 to study medicine in the middle of a U.S. crackdown on Chinese immigrant communities, and her effort to assimilate began. ...(展开全部)

Winner of the 1980 United Daily Literature Competition, this novel about love, betrayal, family life, and the power of tradition in small-town Taiwan was an instant bestseller when first published in Taiwan. At once a bittersweet romance and a vividly detailed portrait of life in a southern Taiwanese coastal town in the 1970s, A Thousand Moons on a Thousand Rivers captures th...(展开全部)

Following in the wake of his groundbreaking War in the Age of Intelligent Machines, Manuel De Landa presents a radical synthesis of historical development over the last one thousand years. More than a simple expository history, A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History sketches the outlines of a renewed materialist philosophy of history in the tradition of Fernand Braudel, Gilles D...(展开全部)

Daily Mail 'These mesmerising stories present a glimpse of modern China more nuanced than any reporter could ever hop to gleam.' Melanie McGrath, Evening Standard 'a wonderfully well-written, fascinating and affecting collection of stories.' The Observer 'Li's ...(展开全部)

Following in the wake of his groundbreaking War in the Age of Intelligent Machines, Manuel De Landa presents a radical synthesis of historical development over the last one thousand years. More than a simple expository history, A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History sketches the outlines of a renewed materialist philosophy of history in the tradition of Fernand Braudel, Gilles D...(展开全部)