In this collection of profiles, essays and travel stories, Chatwin takes us to Benin, where he is arrested as a mercenary during a coup; to Boston to meet an LSD guru who believes he is Christ; to India with Indira Gandhi when she attempted a political comeback in 1978; and to Nepal where he reminds us that 'Man's real home is not a house, but the Road, and that life itself is ...(展开全部)

In this text, Bruce Chatwin writes of his father, of his friend Howard Hodgkin, and of his talks with Andre Malraux and Nadezhda Mandelstram. He also follows unholy grails on his travels, such as the rumour of a "wolf-boy" in India, or the idea of looking for a Yeti.

I AM, I AM, I AM is a memoir with a difference - the unputdownable story of an extraordinary woman's life in near-death experiences. Intelligent, insightful, inspirational, it is a book to be read at a sitting, a story you finish newly conscious of life's fragility, determined to make every heartbeat count. A childhood illness she was not expected to survive. A teenage yearning...(展开全部)

玛姬·欧法洛（Maggie O’Farrell）,著名小说家，1972年出生于北爱尔兰。其首部作品《你走以后》（After You'd Gone）甫一出版即广受好评，并为其斩获贝蒂·特拉斯克奖。随后，其凭借《我们之间的距离》（The Distance Between Us）荣获2005年毛姆奖，又凭借《牵手之初》（The Hand That First Held Mine）荣获2010年科斯塔小说奖；此后，其作品还曾两度入围该奖的短名单。2017年，其出版了自己的首部回忆录《我存在：十七段与死亡擦肩而过的经历》（I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death），该作品很快便荣登《星期日泰晤士报》畅销书单榜首。其于2020年出版的小说《哈姆内特》（Hamnet）则为其赢得了当年的女性小说奖和美国国家书评人协...(展开全部)

On seventeen occasions, Maggie O’Farrell has stared death in the face—and lived to tell the tale. In this astonishing memoir, she shares the near-death experiences that have punctuated and defined her life: The childhood illness that left her bedridden for a year, which she was not expected to survive. A teenage yearning to escape that nearly ended in disaster. An encounter wit...(展开全部)

玛姬·欧法洛（Maggie O’Farrell）,著名小说家，1972年出生于北爱尔兰。其首部作品《你走以后》（After You'd Gone）甫一出版即广受好评，并为其斩获贝蒂·特拉斯克奖。随后，其凭借《我们之间的距离》（The Distance Between Us）荣获2005年毛姆奖，又凭借《牵手之初》（The Hand That First Held Mine）荣获2010年科斯塔小说奖；此后，其作品还曾两度入围该奖的短名单。2017年，其出版了自己的首部回忆录《我存在：十七段与死亡擦肩而过的经历》（I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death），该作品很快便荣登《星期日泰晤士报》畅销书单榜首。其于2020年出版的小说《哈姆内特》（Hamnet）则为其赢得了当年的女性小说奖和美国国家书评人协...(展开全部)

On seventeen occasions, Maggie O’Farrell has stared death in the face—and lived to tell the tale. In this astonishing memoir, she shares the near-death experiences that have punctuated and defined her life: The childhood illness that left her bedridden for a year, which she was not expected to survive. A teenage yearning to escape that nearly ended in disaster. An encounter wit...(展开全部)

I AM, I AM, I AM is a memoir with a difference - the unputdownable story of an extraordinary woman's life in near-death experiences. Intelligent, insightful, inspirational, it is a book to be read at a sitting, a story you finish newly conscious of life's fragility, determined to make every heartbeat count. A childhood illness she was not expected to survive. A teenage yearning...(展开全部)

奥兰多•费吉斯（Orlando Figes，1959— ），英国人，剑桥大学三一学院博士，现为英国伦敦大学伯贝克学院历史学教授。俄国生活的方方面面，不论是文学艺术，还是政治经济，他都烂熟于心，无人能出其右。其一系列解读沙俄及苏联历史的著作《耳语者：斯大林时代苏联的私人生活》、《娜塔莎之舞：俄罗斯文化史》、《农民俄罗斯，内战》、《一个民族的悲剧》、《克里米亚战争》、《革命的俄国，1891—1991》等取得非凡的成就，是当今英语世界俄罗斯研究的一流大家。作品曾获沃尔夫森奖、NCR图书奖等，入围萨缪尔·约翰逊奖、达夫·库珀奖等，并已被翻译成20多种文字出版。 李广平，意大利佛罗伦萨大学研究生院毕业，已出版译作：《儿子，你要活下去》、《永远的叛逆者：茨维塔耶娃的一生》。

奥兰多•费吉斯（Orlando Figes，1959— ），英国人，剑桥大学三一学院博士，现为英国伦敦大学伯贝克学院历史学教授。俄国生活的方方面面，不论是文学艺术，还是政治经济，他都烂熟于心，无人能出其右。其一系列解读沙俄及苏联历史的著作《耳语者：斯大林时代苏联的私人生活》、《娜塔莎之舞：俄罗斯文化史》、《农民俄罗斯，内战》、《一个民族的悲剧》、《克里米亚战争》、《革命的俄国，1891—1991》等取得非凡的成就，是当今英语世界俄罗斯研究的一流大家。作品曾获沃尔夫森奖、NCR图书奖等，入围萨缪尔·约翰逊奖、达夫·库珀奖等，并已被翻译成20多种文字出版。 李广平，意大利佛罗伦萨大学研究生院毕业，已出版译作：《儿子，你要活下去》、《永远的叛逆者：茨维塔耶娃的一生》。