In the centuries leading up to our own, the volume of traffic across Asian sea routes—an area stretching from East Africa and the Middle East to Japan—exploded, eventually making them the busiest in the world. The result was a massive circulation of people, commodities, religion, culture, technology, and ideas. In this book, Eric Tagliacozzo chronicles how the seas and oceans o...(展开全部)

In the centuries leading up to our own, the volume of traffic across Asian sea routes—an area stretching from East Africa and the Middle East to Japan—exploded, eventually making them the busiest in the world. The result was a massive circulation of people, commodities, religion, culture, technology, and ideas. In this book, Eric Tagliacozzo chronicles how the seas and oceans o...(展开全部)

[美]埃里克·谢尔格伦（Eric Kjellgren）是纽约大都会艺术博物馆非洲、大洋洲、美洲艺术部“伊夫林·A. J. 霍尔和约翰·A. 弗里德”助理策展人，在大洋洲艺术方面有着诸多研究，曾著有多本讨论大洋洲艺术和文化的书籍。 ◎ 译者简介 苗纾，自由译者，现居上海。译有《澳大利亚土著艺术》《德拉克洛瓦》等。

[美]埃里克·谢尔格伦（Eric Kjellgren）是纽约大都会艺术博物馆非洲、大洋洲、美洲艺术部“伊夫林·A. J. 霍尔和约翰·A. 弗里德”助理策展人，在大洋洲艺术方面有着诸多研究，曾著有多本讨论大洋洲艺术和文化的书籍。 ◎ 译者简介 苗纾，自由译者，现居上海。译有《澳大利亚土著艺术》《德拉克洛瓦》等。

【澳】格雷格·伊根（Greg Egan） 姓名：格雷格·伊根（Greg Egan） 国籍：澳大利亚 职业：科幻作家、程序员、业余数学家 爱好：隐身、食素、解数学题 奖项：雨果奖、轨迹奖、约翰·坎贝尔纪念奖等 个人网站：http://www.gregegan.net 特别说明：网络上的任何照片都不是伊根本人！

Collected together here for the first time are twelve stories by the incomparable Greg Egan, one of the most exciting writers of science fiction working today. In these dozen glimpses into the future Egan continues to explore the essence of what it is to be human, and the nature of what - and who - we are, in stories that range from parables of contemporary human conflict and a...(展开全部)

Collected together here for the first time are twelve stories by the incomparable Greg Egan, one of the most exciting writers of science fiction working today. In these dozen glimpses into the future Egan continues to explore the essence of what it is to be human, and the nature of what - and who - we are, in stories that range from parables of contemporary human conflict and a...(展开全部)

Collected together here for the first time are twelve stories by the incomparable Greg Egan, one of the most exciting writers of science fiction working today. In these dozen glimpses into the future Egan continues to explore the essence of what it is to be human, and the nature of what - and who - we are, in stories that range from parables of contemporary human conflict and a...(展开全部)

Originally published by John Murray this is an account of Smith's time in Yemen, which started as a sabbatical year in 1982 and grew into fifteen years. Smith travelled the mountains, the desert and the sea and brings the country, the people and three millennia of history to life. scholarly and entertaining... Mackintosh Smith succeeds admirably in shining a light on an obscure...(展开全部)

提姆．麥金塔-史密斯　Tim Macintosh-Smith 出生於1961年，在牛津大學攻讀阿拉伯語，並曾在地中海東部一帶短期擔任過風琴手。 由於年幼時受到葉門影像的吸引，因而於1982年移居到葉門首都薩那一處頂樓居住，當地人稱他為「拿撒勒先生」(基督教徒)。其足跡遍及葉門各地，對於阿拉伯文化及習俗具有極深刻的了解與研究。此書一出版即榮獲1998年的「湯瑪士．庫克」旅行文學獎，以及「每日電訊報」旅行文學獎。 繪者簡介 馬丁．尤曼(Martin Yeoman) 為插畫家、素描家、雕刻家，其作品廣為英國重要收藏家索收藏，包括女王陛下(HM the Queen)及威爾斯王子。