In 1933, at the age of 18, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on an extraordinary journey by foot - from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. A Time of Gifts is the first volume in a trilogy recounting the trip, and takes the reader with him as far as Hungary. It is a book of compelling glimpses - not only of the events which were curdling Europe at that time, but also of its respl...(展开全部)

罗伯特·麦克法伦（Robert Macfarlane，1976— ） 剑桥院士，他的研究和写作领域侧重于自然与文学的关系、二战之后的英美小说、当代诗歌和维多利亚时期文学等等。 他的“行走文学三部曲”展现了当代旅行写作新的走向和所能达到的高度。其中首部《心事如山》获得了“卫报首作奖”、“泰晤士报年度最佳青年作家奖”和“萨默赛特·毛姆奖”；第二部作品《荒野之境》获得或被提名有将近十个奖项，由BBC制成纪录片。《古道》2012年出版，广受好评，不断出现在各种“年度好书”的推介中，获得“塞缪尔·约翰逊奖”提名。2013年他受邀担任布克奖评委会主席，成为布克奖史上最年轻的评委会主席。 麦克法伦的散文机智博雅，精巧而不晦涩，《格兰塔》前主编弗里曼称他为当代最好的行走文学作家。

Orson Scott Card offers a Christmas gift to his millions of fans with this short novel set during Ender's first years at the Battle School where it is forbidden to celebrate religious holidays. The children come from many nations, many religions; while they are being trained for war, religious conflict between them is not on the curriculum. But Dink Meeker, one of the older st...(展开全部)

Do the mysteries of an ancient Indian civilization hold the keyto solving the baffling disappearance of a noted anthropologist?Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn teams with Officer Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police to try to find out. But the case turns more and more sinister. And a series of mystifying murders... each more bizarre than the one before it... makes finding the missing Dr...(展开全部)

At a moonlit Indian ruin--where "thieves of time" ravage sacred ground in the name of profit--a noted anthropologist vanishes while on the verge of making a startling, history-altering discovery. At an ancient burial site, amid stolen goods and desecrated bones, two corpses are discovered, shot by bullets fitting the gun of the missing scientist. There are modern mysteries bur...(展开全部)

'This story, like so many stories, begins with a gift. That gift, like so many gifts, was a book...' In this luminous essay, Robert Macfarlane reflects on the unique emotional resonance of books given and received - and how such gifts have shaped his own life.

At the age of eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set off from the heart of London on an epic journey—to walk to Constantinople. A Time of Gifts is the rich account of his adventures as far as Hungary, after which Between the Woods and the Water continues the story to the Iron Gates that divide the Carpathian and Balkan mountains. Acclaimed for its sweep and intelligence, Leigh ...(展开全部)

At the age of eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set off from the heart of London on an epic journey—to walk to Constantinople. A Time of Gifts is the rich account of his adventures as far as Hungary, after which Between the Woods and the Water continues the story to the Iron Gates that divide the Carpathian and Balkan mountains. Acclaimed for its sweep and intelligence, Leigh ...(展开全部)

Book Description "A Brief History of Time", published in 1988, has been a landmark volume in scientific writing and in worldwide acclaim and popularity, with more than nine million copies sold. That edition was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the nature of the universe. Since its publication, however, there have been extraordinary advances in the technology of...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 The first example of the psychological novel in Russia, A Hero of Our Time influenced Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Chekhov, and other great nineteenth-century masters that followed. Its hero, Pechorin, is Byronic in his wasted gifts, his cynicism, and his desire for any kind of action-good or ill-that will stave off boredom. Outraging many critics when it was first pub...(展开全部)