Dark Star Safari is a written account of a trip taken by author Paul Theroux from Cairo to Cape Town via trains, planes, buses, cars, and armed convoy. Chapters of Book : 1. Lighting Out 2. The Mother of the World 3. Up and Down the Nile 4. The Dervishes of Omdurman 5. The Osama Road to Nubia 6. The Djibouti Line to Harar 7. The Longest Road in Africa 8. Figawi Safari on the Ba...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Paul Theroux sets off for Cape Town from Cairo -- the hard way. Travelling across bush and desert, down rivers and across lakes, and through country after country, Theroux visits some of the most beautiful landscapes on earth, and some of the most dangerous. It is a journey of discovery and of rediscovery -- of the unknown and the unexpected, but also of people and ...(展开全部)

In Dark Star Safari the wittily observant and endearingly irascible Paul Theroux takes readers the length of Africa by rattletrap bus, dugout canoe, cattle truck, armed convoy, ferry, and train. In the course of his epic and enlightening journey, he endures danger, delay, and dismaying circumstances. Gauging the state of affairs, he talks to Africans, aid workers, missionaries,...(展开全部)

Gaze toward the Nile from the desert hills of Mokattam and the vast city of Cairo unfolds before you, with its monumental architecture, teeming populace and thousands of years of rich history. The extraordinary tapestry of Cairo's past and present come vividly to life in this magisterial study by Andre Raymond, arguably the premier social historian of the Arab world. The most d...(展开全部)

作者简介： 安东尼·布朗，1946年出生于英国，其作品屡获各项童书大奖——包括两次凯特·格林纳威大奖和三次库特·马斯勒奖、德国绘本奖、国际安徒生大奖、荷兰银铅笔奖及艾米克奖等。他注意观察和表现儿童的内心世界，努力理解他们的真实需求。因此，孩子们能够在他的图画中得到情感的寄托与安慰，从而获得快乐。代表作有《我爸爸》《我妈妈》《大猩猩》《动物园》《小凯的家不一样了》《看看我有什么》《穿越魔镜》《谁来我家》《形状游戏》《朱家故事》《我喜欢书》等 译者简介： 阿甲，红泥巴读书俱乐部创始人、最有影响力的儿童阅读推广专家。译作包括《穿越魔镜》《看看我有什么》《谁来我家》《野兽出没的地方》《彼得兔的世界》《别让鸽子开巴士》《田鼠阿佛》等。

张琳德，又译林达·约翰逊（Linda Gooke Johnson）出生于英国伦敦，在美国弗吉尼亚州长大。卫斯理学院文学学士，曾在斯坦福大学学习中国艺术史，并获加利福尼亚大学圣克鲁兹分校与伯克利分校合办课程的历史学博士学位。在密歇根州立大学历史系从事中国历史教研工作长达25年以上，著有《帝国晚期的江南城市》（Cities of Jiangnan in Late Imperial China）、《征服王朝的妇女：中国辽金时期的性别与身份》（Women of the conquest Dynasties: Gender and Identity in Liao and Jin China）。

作者：马丁·J. 多尔蒂 自由撰稿人，现居英格兰北部，对军事和国防话题有深入研究。曾担任国防顾问，创作多部自卫和军事科技题材的作品。其作品包括《探秘阿兹特克、印加、玛雅文明》（The Aztec, Inca & Maya Empires）、《维京人历史》（Vikings: A History of the Norse People）、《凯尔特人和北欧神话的黑暗史》（Dark History of the Celts and Norse Myths）、《中世纪武士》（Medieval Warrior）、《极端非武装战斗的SAS和精锐部队指南》（SAS and Elite Forces Guide Extreme Unarmed Combat）等。 译者：王琳 毕业于南京审计大学金融专业，自由译者。有丰富的翻译经验，对历史和文学类题材兴趣浓厚，对欧洲古代...(展开全部)

作者：马丁·J. 多尔蒂 自由撰稿人，现居英格兰北部，对军事和国防话题有深入研究。曾担任国防顾问，创作多部自卫和军事科技题材的作品。其作品包括《探秘阿兹特克、印加、玛雅文明》（The Aztec, Inca & Maya Empires）、《维京人历史》（Vikings: A History of the Norse People）、《凯尔特人和北欧神话的黑暗史》（Dark History of the Celts and Norse Myths）、《中世纪武士》（Medieval Warrior）、《极端非武装战斗的SAS和精锐部队指南》（SAS and Elite Forces Guide Extreme Unarmed Combat）等。 译者：王琳 毕业于南京审计大学金融专业，自由译者。有丰富的翻译经验，对历史和文学类题材兴趣浓厚，对欧洲古代...(展开全部)

Cape Light, Joel Meyerowitz's series of serene and contemplative color photographs taken on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, quickly became one of the most influential and popular photobooks in the latter part of the 20th century after its publication in 1978, breaking new ground both for color photography and for the medium's acceptance in the art world. Now, more than 35 years later,...(展开全部)

In "Love in a Dark Time", Colm Toibin looks at the life and work of some of the greatest and most influential artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His subjects range from figures such as Oscar Wilde, born in the 1850s, to Pedro Almodovar, born nearly a hundred years later. Toibin studies how a changing world impacted on the lives of people who, on the whole, kept ...(展开全部)