As Dalrymple's first book, "In Xanadu", traversed thousands of miles, now he traverses thousands of years. In the course of 12 months in Delhi, he peels back the successive encrusting layers of history, using both material and human remains of each of the eight cities of Delhi, interlacing innumerable stories with the present and ending with the Delhi creation myth contained in...(展开全部)

As Dalrymple's first book, "In Xanadu", traversed thousands of miles, now he traverses thousands of years. In the course of 12 months in Delhi, he peels back the successive encrusting layers of history, using both material and human remains of each of the eight cities of Delhi, interlacing innumerable stories with the present and ending with the Delhi creation myth contained in...(展开全部)

Sparkling with irrepressible wit, City of Djinns peels back the layers of Delhi's centuries-old history, revealing an extraordinary array of characters along the way-from eunuchs to descendants of great Moguls. With refreshingly open-minded curiosity, William Dalrymple explores the seven "dead" cities of Delhi as well as the eighth city-today's Delhi. Underlying his quest is th...(展开全部)

威廉·达尔林谱 William Dalrymple，苏格兰人，在佛斯海湾边长大。曾为《独立报》专栏作家。年方二十二岁便出版了畅销又备受好评的《在萨那都》，此书曾于1990获得《约克郡邮报》的最佳处女作品奖，以及苏格兰艺术协会春季图书奖。1989年他迁居德里，在当地居住四年，为本书搜集资料并为《星期天通讯》、《观察者》、《观察家》以及《周日时报》等报纸撰稿。曾获《周日时报》年度英国青年作家奖。威廉·达尔林普与艺术家奥利维亚·弗莱瑟结婚，目前在伦敦和爱丁堡两地居住。

威廉·达尔林谱 William Dalrymple，苏格兰人，在佛斯海湾边长大。曾为《独立报》专栏作家。年方二十二岁便出版了畅销又备受好评的《在萨那都》，此书曾于1990获得《约克郡邮报》的最佳处女作品奖，以及苏格兰艺术协会春季图书奖。1989年他迁居德里，在当地居住四年，为本书搜集资料并为《星期天通讯》、《观察者》、《观察家》以及《周日时报》等报纸撰稿。曾获《周日时报》年度英国青年作家奖。威廉·达尔林普与艺术家奥利维亚·弗莱瑟结婚，目前在伦敦和爱丁堡两地居住。

Sparkling with irrepressible wit, City of Djinns peels back the layers of Delhi's centuries-old history, revealing an extraordinary array of characters along the way-from eunuchs to descendants of great Moguls. With refreshingly open-minded curiosity, William Dalrymple explores the seven "dead" cities of Delhi as well as the eighth city-today's Delhi. Underlying his quest is th...(展开全部)

For much of its extraordinary life, Baghdad, known for centuries as the "City of Peace," enjoyed both cultural and commercial preeminence. For five centuries it was the seat of the Abbasid Empire, a marvel of glittering palaces, exquisite parks, magnificent mosques, and Islamic colleges. It was a city boasting the most accomplished astronomers, mathematicians, doctors, musician...(展开全部)

Over thirteen centuries, Baghdad has enjoyed both cultural and commercial pre-eminence, boasting artistic and intellectual sophistication and an economy once the envy of the world. It was here, in the time of the Caliphs, that the Thousand and One Nights were set. Yet it has also been a city of great hardships, beset by epidemics, famines, floods, and numerous foreign invasions...(展开全部)

"Life is both fleeting and dangerous, and there is no point in denying yourself pleasure, or being anything other than what you are." Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mo...(展开全部)

St Augustine, bishop of Hippo, was one of the central figures in the history of Christianity, and "City of God" is one of his greatest theological works. Written as an eloquent defence of the faith at a time when the Roman Empire was on the brink of collapse, it examines the ancient pagan religions of Rome, the arguments of the Greek philosophers and the revelations of the Bibl...(展开全部)