A rare and beautifully illustrated journey to fifty faraway worlds. There are still places on earth that are unknown. Visually stunning and uniquely designed, this wondrous book captures fifty islands that are far away in every sense-from the mainland, from people, from airports, and from holiday brochures. Author Judith Schalansky used historic events and scientific repor...(展开全部)

A rare and beautifully illustrated journey to fifty faraway worlds. There are still places on earth that are unknown. Visually stunning and uniquely designed, this wondrous book captures fifty islands that are far away in every sense-from the mainland, from people, from airports, and from holiday brochures. Author Judith Schalansky used historic events and scientific repor...(展开全部)

Judith Schalansky was born in 1980 on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall. The Soviets wouldn't let anyone travel so everything she learnt about the world came from her parents' battered old atlas. An acclaimed novelist and award-winning graphic designer, she has spent years creating this, her own imaginative atlas of the world's loneliest places. These islands are so difficult t...(展开全部)

Judith Schalansky was born in 1980 on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall. The Soviets wouldn't let anyone travel so everything she learnt about the world came from her parents' battered old atlas. An acclaimed novelist and award-winning graphic designer, she has spent years creating this, her own imaginative atlas of the world's loneliest places. These islands are so difficult t...(展开全部)

马歇尔·萨林斯：现任芝加哥大学教授。萨林斯在芝加哥长大就读于密歇根大学, 他的毕业后留在那里工作，同时也在哥伦比亚大学讲课，教授的是人类学。 萨林斯首先意识到自己是一位波利尼西亚的民族志学者和历史学家。 他的关于波利尼西亚与欧洲接触的历史理论引发了主要的人类学的争论， 并且刊登在若干国家性的新闻杂志上。 萨林斯也与他一起工作的夏威夷人民而著名， 他为了本民族的人民和文化继续工作， 他在美国、欧洲和亚洲给许多学生和教师作过演讲。 他的研究领域使他得以游历了充满异国情调的土耳其、斐济、和新几内亚， 1976年他成为了美国艺术和科学学院的院士。

马歇尔·萨林斯：现任芝加哥大学教授。萨林斯在芝加哥长大就读于密歇根大学, 他的毕业后留在那里工作，同时也在哥伦比亚大学讲课，教授的是人类学。 萨林斯首先意识到自己是一位波利尼西亚的民族志学者和历史学家。 他的关于波利尼西亚与欧洲接触的历史理论引发了主要的人类学的争论， 并且刊登在若干国家性的新闻杂志上。 萨林斯也与他一起工作的夏威夷人民而著名， 他为了本民族的人民和文化继续工作， 他在美国、欧洲和亚洲给许多学生和教师作过演讲。 他的研究领域使他得以游历了充满异国情调的土耳其、斐济、和新几内亚， 1976年他成为了美国艺术和科学学院的院士。

Marshall Sahlins centers these essays on islands--Hawaii, Fiji, New Zealand--whose histories have intersected with European history. But he is also concerned with the insular thinking in Western scholarship that creates false dichotomies between past and present, between structure and event, between the individual and society. Sahlins's provocative reflections form a powerful c...(展开全部)

Marshall Sahlins centers these essays on islands--Hawaii, Fiji, New Zealand--whose histories have intersected with European history. But he is also concerned with the insular thinking in Western scholarship that creates false dichotomies between past and present, between structure and event, between the individual and society. Sahlins's provocative reflections form a powerful c...(展开全部)

'Extraordinary... A fascinating and intelligent book.' Sunday Times New islands are being built at an unprecedented rate whether for tourism or territorial ambition, while many islands are disappearing or fragmenting because of rising sea levels. It is a strange planetary spectacle, creating an ever-changing map which even Google Earth struggles to keep pace with. In The Age of...(展开全部)

A catalog of wonders, from walking fish to self-medicating chimpanzees. This Atlas of Poetic Zoology leads readers into a world of wonders where turtles fly under the sea, lizards walk on water, insects impersonate flowers, birds don't fly, frogs come back from the dead, and virgin sharks give birth. Animals, writes Emmanuelle Pouydebat, are lyric poets; they discover and shape...(展开全部)