若热•亚马多（1912—2001），巴西当代著名作家，才华横溢，勤奋多产，在巴西拥有最广泛的读者，作品长年畅销不衰。1931年发表处女作《狂欢节之国》，1933年因发表以可可种植园农民的苦难生活为题材的小说《可可》一举成名。1937年由于参加进步政治运动被捕入狱，他的书被认为颠覆政权，《狂欢节之国》、《可可》、《汗珠》、《儒比亚巴》、《死海》、《沙滩船长》等被当众焚烧。后流亡国外，1952年回国后专事写作，1958年推出《加布里埃拉》，首印两万册，几天内销售一空。1961年当选为巴西文学院院士，五年后获得诺贝尔文学奖提名。 若热•亚马多在近七十年的文学生涯中创作了三十多部长篇和短篇小说，以及诗歌、散文。其作品被译成四十九种文字，在五十五个国家出版。他在作品中反映了巴西社会生活的许多方面，创造了五百多个生动的人物形象，其中不少人物在巴西家喻户晓。他的作...(展开全部)

若热•亚马多（1912—2001），巴西当代著名作家，才华横溢，勤奋多产，在巴西拥有最广泛的读者，作品长年畅销不衰。1931年发表处女作《狂欢节之国》，1933年因发表以可可种植园农民的苦难生活为题材的小说《可可》一举成名。1937年由于参加进步政治运动被捕入狱，他的书被认为颠覆政权，《狂欢节之国》、《可可》、《汗珠》、《儒比亚巴》、《死海》、《沙滩船长》等被当众焚烧。后流亡国外，1952年回国后专事写作，1958年推出《加布里埃拉》，首印两万册，几天内销售一空。1961年当选为巴西文学院院士，五年后获得诺贝尔文学奖提名。 若热•亚马多在近七十年的文学生涯中创作了三十多部长篇和短篇小说，以及诗歌、散文。其作品被译成四十九种文字，在五十五个国家出版。他在作品中反映了巴西社会生活的许多方面，创造了五百多个生动的人物形象，其中不少人物在巴西家喻户晓。他的作...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Book Description Spain. A land of eternal passion and unceasing bloodshed. From the vengeance of a pitiless tyrant, four women flee the sacred, once-safe walls of a convent: LUCIA, the proud survivor harboring a murderous secret from the savage clan wars of Sicily...GRACIELLA, the beauty still unpurged of guilt from one reckless, youthful sin...MEGAN, the orphan seeki...(展开全部)

On sick leave from Scotland Yard, Inspector Alan Grant is planning a quiet holiday with an old school chum to recover from overwork and mental fatigue. Traveling on the night train to Scotland, however, Grant stumbles upon a dead man and a cryptic poem about "the stones that walk" and "the singing sand", which send him off on a fascinating search into the verse's meaning and th...(展开全部)

罗伯特•N.斯宾格勒三世（Robert N. Spengler III） 德国马克斯-普朗克人类历史科学研究所古植物学实验室负责人，大众/梅隆基金会（ Volkswagen/Mellon Foundations）研究员，以及古代世界研究所的前访问研究学者。 陈阳 毕业于北京语言大学高级翻译学院，英语、法语自由译者、写作者。译有《法老的宝藏》《密室推理讲座》《一个孤独漫步者的遐想》《人间食粮》《人像：2005-2016》等十余部作品。 唐莉 德国马克斯-普朗克人类历史科学研究所考古学专业博士。

The foods we eat have a deep and often surprising past. From almonds and apples to tea and rice, many foods that we consume today have histories that can be traced out of prehistoric Central Asia along the tracks of the Silk Road to kitchens in Europe, America, China, and elsewhere in East Asia. The exchange of goods, ideas, cultural practices, and genes along these ancient rou...(展开全部)

Arabian Sands is Wilfred Thesiger's record of his extraordinary journey through the parched "Empty Quarter" of Arabia. Educated at Eton and Oxford, Thesiger was repulsed by the softness and rigidity of Western life-"the machines, the calling cards, the meticulously aligned streets." In the spirit of T. E. Lawrence, he set out to explore the deserts of Arabia, traveling among p...(展开全部)

The southern Arabian desert, a quarter million square miles of sand (650,000 square kilometers), is now a place of oil wells and Land Rovers, but before the 1950s it was still known as the Empty Quarter, a place you entered only on camel and only as an Arab. Only a few white men had ever seen it, much less crossed it. From 1945 to 1950, the British Thesiger crossed it twice, li...(展开全部)

Before there was Kate Beaton, New York Times bestselling cartoonist of Hark! A Vagrant, there was Katie Beaton of the Cape Breton Beaton, specifically Mabou, a tight-knit seaside community where the lobster is as abundant as beaches, fiddles, and Gaelic folk songs. With the singular goal of paying off her student loans, Katie heads out west to take advantage of Alberta’s oil ru...(展开全部)

From “one of our most original writers” (Kathryn Schulz, New York magazine) comes an expansive and exacting book—firmly grounded but elegant, often hilarious, and always inquisitive—about travel, unexpected awareness, and the questions we ask when we step outside ourselves. Geoff Dyer’s restless search—for what? is unclear, even to him—continues in this series of fascinating ad...(展开全部)