托尼·霍维茨（Tony Horwitz,1958-2019） 美国记者、作家。曾长期供职于《华尔街日报》，报道中东、非洲和巴尔干地区的战争和冲突，并于1995年获普利策新闻奖（美国）国内报道奖。在成为专职作家之前，亦为《纽约客》杂志撰稿。 霍维茨独特的报界工作经历使他在写作时乐于将旅途中的故事与真实历史结合起来。除本书外，他还著有《阁楼上的邦联军》（Confederates in the Attic）、《蓝色纬度》（Blue Latitudes）等类似风格的畅销作品。

托尼·霍维茨（Tony Horwitz,1958-2019） 美国记者、作家。曾长期供职于《华尔街日报》，报道中东、非洲和巴尔干地区的战争和冲突，并于1995年获普利策新闻奖（美国）国内报道奖。在成为专职作家之前，亦为《纽约客》杂志撰稿。 霍维茨独特的报界工作经历使他在写作时乐于将旅途中的故事与真实历史结合起来。除本书外，他还著有《阁楼上的邦联军》（Confederates in the Attic）、《蓝色纬度》（Blue Latitudes）等类似风格的畅销作品。

Long before the Pilgrims, other Europeans pioneered North America, seeking land, converts and cities of gold. By exploring Americas lost, or often repressed, heritage, award-winning writer Tony Horwitz unmasks the countrys founding myths. A Voyage Long and Strange opens with the Vikings in ad 1000, but focuses on the neglected period in early American history between Columbuss ...(展开全部)

托尼·霍维茨（Tony Horwitz,1958-2019） 美国记者、作家。曾长期供职于《华尔街日报》，报道中东、非洲和巴尔干地区的战争和冲突，并于1995年获普利策新闻奖（美国）国内报道奖。在成为专职作家之前，亦为《纽约客》杂志撰稿。 霍维茨独特的报界工作经历使他在写作时乐于将旅途中的故事与真实历史结合起来。除本书外，他还著有《阁楼上的邦联军》（Confederates in the Attic）、《蓝色纬度》（Blue Latitudes）等类似风格的畅销作品。

How did our modern ideas of physical well-being originate? As John Crowley demonstrates in The Invention of Comfort, changes in sensible technology owed a great deal to fashion-conscious elites discovering discomfort in surroundings they earlier had felt to be satisfactory. Written in an engaging style that will appeal to historians and material culture specialists as well a...(展开全部)

How did our modern ideas of physical well-being originate? As John Crowley demonstrates in The Invention of Comfort, changes in sensible technology owed a great deal to fashion-conscious elites discovering discomfort in surroundings they earlier had felt to be satisfactory. Written in an engaging style that will appeal to historians and material culture specialists as well a...(展开全部)

Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. The AT offers an astonishing landscape of silent forests and sparkling lakes--and to a writer with the comic genius of Bill Bryson, it also provides endless opportunities to witness t...(展开全部)

Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. The AT offers an astonishing landscape of silent forests and sparkling lakes--and to a writer with the comic genius of Bill Bryson, it also provides endless opportunities to witness t...(展开全部)

“A thoughtfully observed travel memoir and history as richly detailed as it is deeply felt” (Kirkus Reviews) of South America, from Butch Cassidy to Che Guevara to cocaine king Pablo Escobar to Charles Darwin, all set in the Andes Mountains. The Andes Mountains are the world’s longest mountain chain, linking most of the countries in South America. Kim MacQuarrie takes us on a h...(展开全部)