【作者简介】 埃里克•杰•多林（Eric Jay Dolin）毕业于布朗大学，主修生物和环境研究，在耶鲁大学森林和环境研究学院获得环境管理硕士学位后，又取得麻省理工学院环境政策和规划博士学位。曾任美国环保署项目经理，在美国和英国从事环境顾问工作，他的大部分作品反映了他对野生动物、环境和美国历史的兴趣，如《美国和中国最初的相遇》《皮毛、财富和帝国》《利维坦》《政治的浑水》《蛇头》等。 个人网站：www.ericjaydolin.com 【译者简介】 冯璇，北京外国语大学英语学院毕业，曾在出版社从事版权工作，现专门从事翻译工作，已翻译出版了《利维坦 》《皮毛、财富和帝国》《印象巴黎》 《安第斯山脉的生与死》《印加帝国的末日》《布鲁内莱斯基的穹顶》《美第奇家族的兴衰》《郁金香热》等作品。

With surprising tales of vicious mutineers, imperial riches, and high-seas intrigue, Black Flags, Blue Waters is “rumbustious enough for the adventure-hungry” (Peter Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle). Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the surprising history of American piracy’s “Golden Age” - spanning the late 1600s through the e...(展开全部)

达娜•戈德斯坦（Dana Goldstein） 记者、《纽约时报》畅销书作家、《纽约时报》全国通讯作者，为《大西洋月刊》等多家杂志供稿。荣获新美国基金会（New America Foundation）的伯纳德•L•施瓦茨（Bernard L. Schwartz）项目奖金和国家研究所（Nation Institute）的海鹦基金会（Puffin Foundation）写作项目奖金。两次入围利文斯顿大奖（Livingston Awards）35岁以下杰出青年记者最终名单。

By 1870, just five years after Confederate surrender and thirteen years after the Dred Scott decision ruled blacks ineligible for citizenship, Congressional action had ended slavery and given the vote to black men. That same year, Hiram Revels and Joseph Hayne Rainey became the first African-American U.S. senator and congressman respectively. In South Carolina, only twenty year...(展开全部)

Bible John killed three women, and took three souvenirs. Johnny Bible killed to steal his namesake's glory. Oilman Allan Mitchelson died for his principles. And convict Lenny Spaven died just to prove a point. "Bible John" terrorized Glasgow in the sixties and seventies, murdering three women he met in a local ballroom--and he was never caught. Now a copycat is at work. Nicknam...(展开全部)

The Haitian revolution began in the French colony of Saint-Domingue with a slave revolt in November 1791, and culminated a dozen years later in the proclamation of the world's first independent black republic. Touissant Louverture did more than any other to shape the course of this revolution- after the abolition of slavery in 1793, he became the leader of the colony's 500,000 ...(展开全部)

From the beginnings of the slave trade through colonization, the struggle for independence, Mobutu's brutal three decades of rule, and the civil war that has raged from 1996 to the present day, Congo: The Epic History of a People traces the history of one of the most devastated nations in the world. Esteemed scholar David Van Reybrouck balances hundreds of interviews with a div...(展开全部)

From the beginnings of the slave trade through colonization, the struggle for independence, Mobutu's brutal three decades of rule, and the civil war that has raged from 1996 to the present day, Congo: The Epic History of a People traces the history of one of the most devastated nations in the world. Esteemed scholar David Van Reybrouck balances hundreds of interviews with a div...(展开全部)

From the time of its first publication in 1960, Conrad Richter's The Waters of Kronos sparked lively debate about the extent to which its story of a belated return to childhood scenes mirrored key events of Richter's own life. As was well known at the time, Richter had spent several years in the Southwest, where he collected the material for his first successful book, Early Ame...(展开全部)

Pirates have captivated our imaginations for generations, and the popularity of the recent Pirates of the Caribbean films has planted them even more firmly in our minds. But what were pirates really like? Author Robert Ritchie guides us on a tour of piracy from ancient times through the present, and dispels the false image of pirates created by adventure stories and Holly...(展开全部)