A funny--and often hilarious--month-by-month account of the charms and frustrations of moving into an old French farmhouse in Provence and adapting to a very different way of life.

彼得·梅尔，英国知名作家，曾任国际大广告公司的高级主管。在纽约麦迪逊大街的广告业打拼了15年之后，于1975年开始专职写作。 主要作品有旅游散文《普罗旺斯的一年》、《永远的普罗旺斯》、《重返普罗旺斯》，小说《茴香酒店》和《追踪塞尚》，时节尚读物《品位》和美食散文集《吃懂法兰西》等。《一只狗的生活意见》是他第一部关于狗儿仔仔的作品。 目前他和妻子及两只爱犬隐居于法国的普罗旺斯地区。

Sparkling with irrepressible wit, City of Djinns peels back the layers of Delhi's centuries-old history, revealing an extraordinary array of characters along the way-from eunuchs to descendants of great Moguls. With refreshingly open-minded curiosity, William Dalrymple explores the seven "dead" cities of Delhi as well as the eighth city-today's Delhi. Underlying his quest is th...(展开全部)

威廉·达尔林谱 William Dalrymple，苏格兰人，在佛斯海湾边长大。曾为《独立报》专栏作家。年方二十二岁便出版了畅销又备受好评的《在萨那都》，此书曾于1990获得《约克郡邮报》的最佳处女作品奖，以及苏格兰艺术协会春季图书奖。1989年他迁居德里，在当地居住四年，为本书搜集资料并为《星期天通讯》、《观察者》、《观察家》以及《周日时报》等报纸撰稿。曾获《周日时报》年度英国青年作家奖。威廉·达尔林普与艺术家奥利维亚·弗莱瑟结婚，目前在伦敦和爱丁堡两地居住。

The veteran of four space flights and the American record holder for consecutive days spent in space, Scott Kelly has experienced things very few have. Now, he takes us inside a sphere utterly hostile to human life. He describes navigating the extreme challenges of long-term spaceflight—the devastating effects on the body, the isolation from everyone he loves and the comforts o...(展开全部)

The veteran of four space flights and the American record holder for consecutive days spent in space, Scott Kelly has experienced things very few have. Now, he takes us inside a sphere utterly hostile to human life. He describes navigating the extreme challenges of long-term spaceflight—the devastating effects on the body, the isolation from everyone he loves and the comforts o...(展开全部)

With his national bestsellers A Year in Provence and Toujours Provence, Peter Mayle gave new meaning to the phrase "great escape." Now he has written a delightful novel of romance, adventure, and tongue-in-cheek suspense, set in the beguiling French region he has staked out as his own.

李欧·李奥尼（Leo Lionni） 绘本作家、画家、艺术家。1910年5月出生于荷兰阿姆斯特丹，父亲是一位会计师，母亲是一位歌剧演员，两位叔叔都是艺术品收藏家。 浸润在这样浓郁的艺术氛围之中，李奥尼很早就对绘画萌生了兴趣，立志成为一名艺术家，他常常去家附近的博物馆、美术馆欣赏大师的作品。 14岁，李奥尼随父母定居意大利热那亚，在那里度过了少年和青年时代。1935年，李奥尼获得热那亚大学经济学博士学位，几年之后，他举家 搬到了美国费城，正式投身广告设计行业并取得了辉煌的成就。 1960年，处于事业巔峰期的他回到了意大利。他原本打算全身心投入绘画和雕塑创作，结果却走上了绘本作家的道路。尽管李奥尼49岁才开始 创作绘本，却开创了一个绘本的新时代。《纽约时报》曾这样评价他“如果绘本是我们这个时代一种新的视觉艺术，李欧·李奥尼则是这种风格的大家。” 李奥尼一...(展开全部)

A charming exploration of the seasons with some of Caldecott-winner Leo Lionni's beloved mice. In January, two mice, Willie and Winnie, make a new friend: a tree. The tree tells them her name is Woody, and the mice promise to visit her all year round. As the months tick by, Willie and Winnie watch Woody soak up the rain, bloom buds into flowers and leaves, and bear fruit. By th...(展开全部)

From Peter Mayle, a wonderful new novel steeped in wine—and the business of wine?and set in, bien sûr, Provence. Max Skinner is not exactly setting the London financial world on fire?and when his supervisor steals his biggest client, it’s definitely time to inspect the vineyard in Provence that his recently departed uncle left him. Heartily and happily distracted upon his...(展开全部)