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)

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)

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：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)

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)

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)

From a noted journalist who has spent much of his life in Cairo, here is a dazzling cultural excavation of that most ancient, colorful, and multifaceted of cities. The seat of pharaohs and sultans, the prize of conquerors from Alexander to Saladin to Napoleon, Cairo--nicknamed "the Victorious"--has never ceased reinventing herself. With intimate knowlege, humor, and affection,...(展开全部)

Once there was a boy, and that boy loved stars very much. So much so that he decided to catch one of his very own. But how? Waiting for them to grow tired from being up in the sky all night doesn't work. Climbing to the top of the tallest tree? No, not tall enough. The boy has a rocket ship . . . but it is made of paper and doesn't fly well at all. Finally, just when the boy is...(展开全部)