Charles Mason (1728 -1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British Surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line. Here is their story as re-imagined by Thomas Pynchon, in an updated eighteenth-century novel featuring Native Americans and frontier folk, ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspi...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Poirot investigates a culprit who has curiously swiped a stethoscope, a tube of lipstick, and a cookbook.

在线阅读本书 Poirot investigates a culprit who has curiously swiped a stethoscope, a tube of lipstick, and a cookbook.

Esta es la historia de Charles Mason y Jeremiah Dixon, un melancolico astronomo y un exultante topografo britanicos que, a sueldo de la Royal Society, trazaron la linea que separaba Pennsylvania y Maryland, conocida aun hoy como la Linea Mason-Dixon, y de sus viajes por el mundo, contada por el magistral Thomas Pynchon. / The story of Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, an astron...(展开全部)

Book Description The highest standards in editing and production have been applied to the Wordsworth Children's Classics, while the low price makes them affordable for everyone. Wordsworth's list covers a range of the best-loved stories for children, from nursery tales, classic fables, and fairy tales to stories that will appeal to older children and adults alike. Many of thes...(展开全部)

This is Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game country of East Africa, where he and his wife Pauline journeyed in December 1933. Hemingway's well-known interest in - and fascination with - big game hunting is magnificently captured in this evocative account of his trip. It is an examination of the lure of the hunt and an impassioned portrait o...(展开全部)

Book Description The highest standards in editing and production have been applied to the Wordsworth Children's Classics, while the low price makes them affordable for everyone. Wordsworth's list covers a range of the best-loved stories for children, from nursery tales, classic fables, and fairy tales to stories that will appeal to older children and adults alike. Many of thes...(展开全部)

As soon as Anne Shirley arrived at the snug, white farmhouse called Green Gables, she knew she wanted to stay forever...but would the Cuthberts send her back to the orphanage? Anne knows she's not what they expected--a skinny girl with decidedly red hair and a temper to match. If only she could convince them to let her stay, she'd try very hard not to keep rushing headlong in...(展开全部)

Discover the joys of nature, seasons, family--and the vibrant colors of them all--in this lyrical picture book from the author of the acclaimed Blue on Blue. A child is on a colorful journey through the seasons, filled with yellow flowers and blue coral in spring and summer and orange pumpkins and green pine forests in fall and winter. All the while, there is another colorful c...(展开全部)

《梅森与迪克逊》出版于1997年，背景是独立战争前的美洲殖民地，以英国天文学家查尔斯·梅森(Charles Mason)和勘探员杰罗米·迪克逊(Jeremiah Dixon)勘察并划定梅森-迪克逊线(宾夕法尼亚州与马里兰州分界线和美国革命前南北分界线)的经历为线索，探讨立国前后在国民性问题上种族、阶级和派系纷争的历史根源及其在共和国发展历程中的流变，揭示革命理想与社会现实之间的巨大差距。梅森-迪克逊线的勘察与划定不仅构成了小说情节的主线，还成为具有伦理和政治寓意的隐喻，为作者切人帝国的文化逻辑提供了一条具有稳定所指又富有弹性的符号链，连接了美国历史各个重要时期，显示出贯古通今的历史感。繁复众多的人物、事件以及纵横交错的线条构成了巨大的迷宫，展现主人公梅森与迪克逊在这片神秘国土上对勘察的意义和新世界理想产生的困惑和迷茫，由此引出关于美国民族国家的立国基...(展开全部)