When Edmund Hillary first conquered Mt. Everest, Sherpa Tenzing Norgay was at his side. Indeed, for as long as Westerners have been climbing the Himalaya, Sherpas have been the unsung heroes in the background. In August 2008, when eleven climbers lost their lives on K2, the world's most dangerous peak, two Sherpas survived. They had emerged from poverty and political turmoil to...(展开全部)

When Edmund Hillary first conquered Mt. Everest, Sherpa Tenzing Norgay was at his side. Indeed, for as long as Westerners have been climbing the Himalaya, Sherpas have been the unsung heroes in the background. In August 2008, when eleven climbers lost their lives on K2, the world's most dangerous peak, two Sherpas survived. They had emerged from poverty and political turmoil to...(展开全部)

彼得．祖克曼（Peter Zuckerman），阿曼達．帕多安（Amanda Padoan） 彼得．祖克曼是記者，在不到三十歲時就獲得多個新聞報導獎，包括利文斯頓獎（Livingston Award）、貝爾森獎（C.B. Blethen Award）及國家新聞獎（National Journalism Awards）；阿曼達．帕多安是登山者，她的好友卡里姆．馬赫本（Karim Meherban）死於2008年k2山難。兩人於事件發生後著手此書，總共採訪兩百多人，參考了數以千計的照片和影片，歷時三年才完成這部極地登山史上的重要報導。 譯者簡介 易思婷 美國賓州大學電腦博士，因熱愛戶外活動而選擇一條不同的人生路。目前旅居美國，在攀登世界鑽研、教學、寫作、挑戰前人未曾嘗試過的攀登路線。著有《睡在懸崖上的人》、《一攀就上手》、《傳統攀登》。譯有《幸福的征途》...(展开全部)

No disease the world has ever known even remotely resembles the great influenza epidemic of 1918. Presumed to have begun when sick farm animals infected soldiers in Kansas, spreading and mutating into a lethal strain as troops carried it to Europe, it exploded across the world with unequaled ferocity and speed. It killed more people in twenty weeks than AIDS has killed in twen...(展开全部)

No disease the world has ever known even remotely resembles the great influenza epidemic of 1918. Presumed to have begun when sick farm animals infected soldiers in Kansas, spreading and mutating into a lethal strain as troops carried it to Europe, it exploded across the world with unequaled ferocity and speed. It killed more people in twenty weeks than AIDS has killed in twen...(展开全部)

迈克·芬克尔 资深作者、作家。对于如何对写作产生兴趣，芬克尔说：“我是个幸运的人，很早就知道我想做的是什么。”作为深度报道记者，迈克·芬克尔探访过坦桑尼亚仍靠狩猎和采集食物为生的部落，也到过始终处于冲突焦点的以色列和阿富汗等国。文章见于《美国国家地理杂志》《滚石》《名利场》《大西洋月刊》等刊物。著有《真实的故事：谋杀、回忆与过失》，2015年被改编成电影。

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An urgent wake-up call about the future of emerging viruses and a gripping account of the doctors and scientists fighting to protect us, told through the story of the deadly 2013–2014 Ebola epidemic “Crisis in the Red Zone reads like a thriller. That the story it tells is all true makes it all more terrifying.”—Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize–winn...(展开全部)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An urgent wake-up call about the future of emerging viruses and a gripping account of the doctors and scientists fighting to protect us, told through the story of the deadly 2013–2014 Ebola epidemic “Crisis in the Red Zone reads like a thriller. That the story it tells is all true makes it all more terrifying.”—Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize–winn...(展开全部)

Ten years have passed on Tines World, where Ravna Bergnsdot and a number of human Children ended up after a disaster that nearly obliterated humankind throughout the galaxy. Ravna and the pack animals for which the planet is named have survived a war, and Ravna has saved more than one hundred Children who were in cold-sleep aboard the vessel that brought them. While there is pe...(展开全部)