Winner of the 2020 Wainwright Prize, Diary of a Young Naturalist chronicles the turning of Dara McAnulty's world, from spring to summer, autumn to winter, on his home patch, at school, in the wild and in his head. Evocative, raw and beautifully written, this very special book vividly explores the natural world from the perspective of an autistic teenager juggling homework, exam...(展开全部)

In 1954, David Attenborough, a young television presenter, was offered the opportunity of a lifetime--to travel the world finding rare and elusive animals for the London Zoo's collection, and to film the expedition for the BBC for a new show called Zoo Quest. This is the story of those voyages. Staying with local tribes while trekking in search of giant anteaters in Guyana, Kom...(展开全部)

大卫·爱登堡（David Attenborough），英国电视节目制作人、主持人、博物学家和旅行家，被誉为“自然纪录片之父”。他就读于剑桥大学，学习自然科学，1952年加入英国广播公司，1954年开始制作具有开创性的纪录片《动物园探奇》。在长达七十年的职业生涯中，他策划、解说了《生命的进化》《飞禽传》《地球脉动》《我们的星球》等多部经典的自然纪录片，向观众呈现了地球生命的几乎每一个方面，并深刻地改变了我们认识自然的方式。爱登堡于1985年被授予爵士称号，2005年获得英国皇室功绩勋章。他曾任大英博物馆和英国皇家植物园的托管人，目前担任英国蝴蝶保护委员会会长。 译者 李想，北京大学考古文博学院硕士，现工作于中国社会科学院考古研究所。 审校 张劲硕，中国科学院动物研究所博士，国家动物博物馆副馆长、研究馆员。

Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic -- a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two ...(展开全部)

《THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL(安妮日记)》Anne Frank's extraordinary diary, written in the Amsterdam attic where she and her family hid from the naxis for two years, has become a world classic and a timeless testament to the human spirit. Nowk, in a new edition enriched by many passages originally withheld by her father, we meet and Anne more real ,more human, and more vital than ever. ...(展开全部)

Book Description The Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to new titles. The diary is that of someone who acknowledges that he is not a "somebody" - Charles Pooter, a clerk in the city of London, chronicles with often hilarious ...(展开全部)

A young worm discovers, day by day, that there are some very good and some not so good things about being a worm in this great big world.

Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown - Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelving, with twisting corridors and roaring fires, and all set in a beautiful, rural town by the edge of the sea. A book-lover's paradise? Well, almost ... In these wry and hilarious diaries, Shaun provides an inside look at the trials and tribu...(展开全部)

An utterly contemporary and deeply thought-provoking novel which addresses the profound unease of countless people in modern democracies around the world. An eminent, seventy-two-year-old Australian writer is invited to contribute to a book entitled Strong Opinions. It is a chance to air some urgent concerns. He writes short essays on the origins of the state, on Machiavelli, ...(展开全部)

A new work of fiction by the Nobel Prize–winning author of Disgrace In this brilliant new work of fiction, J. M. Coetzee once again breaks new literary ground with a book that is, in the words of its main character, “a response to the present in which I find myself.” Diary of a Bad Year takes on the world of politics—a new topic for Coetzee—and explores the role of the write...(展开全部)