David Abulafia begins with the earliest of seafaring societies - the Polynesians of the Pacific, the possessors of intuitive navigational skills, long before the invention of the compass, who by the first century were trading between their far-flung islands. By the seventh century, trading routes stretched from the coasts of Arabia and Africa to southern China and Japan, bringi...(展开全部)

[英]大卫·阿布拉菲亚(Davibulafia)，剑桥大学荣休教授，冈维尔与凯斯学院研究员，曾任剑桥大学历史系主任。他是欧洲科学院院士和英国学术院院士，并担任英国学术院中世纪研究部门的主席。著有Frederick、TheDiscoveryofMankind、The GreatSea(中译本《伟大的海》由社会科学文献出版社于2018年出版)等，其中TheGreat Sea已被翻译成十几种语言。 陆大鹏，世界史研究者，英德译者。著有《德意志贵族》《巴比伦怪物》。译有《阿拉伯的劳伦斯》《金雀花王朝》等。获誉:《北京青年报》2015年度译者;《经济观察书评》2015年度译者;单向街书店文学奖2016年度文学翻译奖;《新周刊》2018年新锐榜年度知道分子;2023年文景历史写作奖十强。

David Abulafia begins with the earliest of seafaring societies - the Polynesians of the Pacific, the possessors of intuitive navigational skills, long before the invention of the compass, who by the first century were trading between their far-flung islands. By the seventh century, trading routes stretched from the coasts of Arabia and Africa to southern China and Japan, bringi...(展开全部)

David Abulafia begins with the earliest of seafaring societies - the Polynesians of the Pacific, the possessors of intuitive navigational skills, long before the invention of the compass, who by the first century were trading between their far-flung islands. By the seventh century, trading routes stretched from the coasts of Arabia and Africa to southern China and Japan, bringi...(展开全部)

For a thousand years, infinity has proven to be a difficult and illuminating challenge for mathematicians and theologians. It certainly is the strangest idea that humans have ever thought. Where did it come from and what is it telling us about our Universe? Can there actually be infinities? Is matter infinitely divisible into ever-smaller pieces? But infinity is also the place...(展开全部)

For more than two hundred years after its establishment in 1392, the Chosŏn dynasty of Korea enjoyed generally peaceful and stable relations with neighboring Ming China, which dwarfed it in size, population, and power. This remarkably long period of sustained peace was not an inevitable consequence of Chinese cultural and political ascendancy. In this book, Sixiang Wang demonst...(展开全部)

For more than two hundred years after its establishment in 1392, the Chosŏn dynasty of Korea enjoyed generally peaceful and stable relations with neighboring Ming China, which dwarfed it in size, population, and power. This remarkably long period of sustained peace was not an inevitable consequence of Chinese cultural and political ascendancy. In this book, Sixiang Wang demonst...(展开全部)

For more than two hundred years after its establishment in 1392, the Chosŏn dynasty of Korea enjoyed generally peaceful and stable relations with neighboring Ming China, which dwarfed it in size, population, and power. This remarkably long period of sustained peace was not an inevitable consequence of Chinese cultural and political ascendancy. In this book, Sixiang Wang demonst...(展开全部)