It is 1839 and tension has been rapidly mounting between China and British India following the crackdown on opium smuggling by Beijing. With no resolution in sight, the colonial government declares war. One of the vessels requisitioned for the attack, the Hind, travels eastwards from Bengal to China, sailing into the midst of the First Opium War. The turbulent voyage brings tog...(展开全部)

t is 1839 and China has embargoed the trade of opium, yet too much is at stake in the lucrative business and the British Foreign Secretary has ordered the colonial government in India to assemble an expeditionary force for an attack to reinstate the trade. Among those consigned is Kesri Singh, a soldier in the army of the East India Company. He makes his way eastward on the Hin...(展开全部)

艾米塔•葛旭（Amitav Ghosh） 1956年生於印度加爾各答，先後於德里的聖史蒂芬學院、德里大學，以及牛津大學聖艾德蒙學院學習接受教育，並獲社會人類學博士學位。畢業後任職於《新德里快報》擔任記者。 1986年起，他陸續發表《理性環》（The Circle of Reason）、《陰影線》（The Shadow Lines）、《加爾各答染色體》（The Calcutta Chromosome）、《玻璃宮殿》（The Glass Palace）與《餓潮》（The Hungry Tide）等五部小說。2008年，他推出背景設於鴉片戰爭爆發前夕的東方殖民史小說「朱鷺號三部曲」第一集《罌粟海》，2011年推出第二集《煙籠河》（River of Smoke），2015年則是三部曲終篇《烽火劫》（Flood of Fire）。 他的首部小說《理性環》出版後...(展开全部)

艾米塔•葛旭（Amitav Ghosh） 1956年生於印度加爾各答，先後於德里的聖史蒂芬學院、德里大學，以及牛津大學聖艾德蒙學院學習接受教育，並獲社會人類學博士學位。畢業後任職於《新德里快報》擔任記者。 1986年起，他陸續發表《理性環》（The Circle of Reason）、《陰影線》（The Shadow Lines）、《加爾各答染色體》（The Calcutta Chromosome）、《玻璃宮殿》（The Glass Palace）與《餓潮》（The Hungry Tide）等五部小說。2008年，他推出背景設於鴉片戰爭爆發前夕的東方殖民史小說「朱鷺號三部曲」第一集《罌粟海》，2011年推出第二集《煙籠河》（River of Smoke），2015年則是三部曲終篇《烽火劫》（Flood of Fire）。 他的首部小說《理性環》出版後...(展开全部)

From the senior White House correspondent for The New York Times comes the definitive history of the Bush and Cheney White House—a tour de force narrative of those dramatic and controversial eight years. Taking readers into the offices of the West Wing and the cabins of Air Force One, Peter Baker tells the gripping inside story of the Bush and Cheney era. Theirs was th...(展开全部)

安德烈·斯帕克沃斯基，波兰著名幻想文学家，全欧洲除已故大师托尔金之外的奇幻第一人，以细腻而幽默的文笔和对“灰色英雄”的独特鉴赏力闻名。《猎魔人》系列是他的成名作，也是整个东欧最有影响力的的文学作品之一。 21世纪初，波兰工作室CDproject穷数年之力，将《猎魔人》改 编为游戏《巫师》系列，轰动全球，曾作为波兰国家国礼赠送给奥巴马总统。

The most important novel of twentieth-century Urdu fiction, Qurratulain Hyder’s River of Fire encompasses the fates of four recurring characters over two and a half millennia. These characters become crisscrossed and strangely inseparable over different eras, forming and reforming their relationships in romance and war, in possession and dispossession. River of Fire interweaves...(展开全部)

Now available as a paperback, the most important novel of twentieth-century Urdu fiction. Now available as a New Directions Paperbook, Qurratulain Hyder's River of Fire makes a bid to be recognized in the West as what it has long been acknowledged in the East: the most important novel of twentieth-century Urdu fiction. First published as Aag ka Darya in 1959, River of Fire enco...(展开全部)

安德烈·斯帕克沃斯基，波兰著名幻想文学家，全欧洲除已故大师托尔金之外的奇幻第一人，以细腻而幽默的文笔和对“灰色英雄”的独特鉴赏力闻名。《猎魔人》系列是他的成名作，也是整个东欧最有影响力的的文学作品之一。 21世纪初，波兰工作室CDproject穷数年之力，将《猎魔人》改 编为游戏《巫师》系列，轰动全球，曾作为波兰国家国礼赠送给奥巴马总统。

"[Bachelard] is neither a self-confessed and tortured atheist like Satre, nor, like Chardin, a heretic combining a belief in God with a proficiency in modern science. But, within the French context, he is almost as important as they are because he has a pseudo-religious force, without taking a stand on religion. To define him as briefly as possible – he is a philosopher, with a...(展开全部)