【作者简介】 阿米塔夫•高希（Amitav Ghosh）1956年出生于加尔各答，成长于印度、孟加拉国和斯里兰卡等地。从新德里大学毕业后，他赴牛津大学圣埃德蒙学堂研修，并获社会人类学博士学位。高希以其独有的人类学者的知识背景和现实关怀，以及细腻入微的描写，构成了当代印度英语文学重要的一部分。 著作另有《理性环》（The Circle of Reason）、《阴影线》（The Shadow Lines）、《饿潮》（The Hungry Tide）以及“朱鹭号”三部曲《罂粟海》(Sea of Poppies)、《烟河》（River of Smoke）和《火海》（Flood of Fire）等十余部作品。他的作品斩获了包括法国美第奇文学奖、印度顶级文学奖挲诃德耶学院奖以及英国阿瑟•克拉克科幻奖等诸多国际大奖。2007年，他被印度总统授予印度最高荣誉“卓越贡...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 阿米塔夫•高希（Amitav Ghosh）1956年出生于加尔各答，成长于印度、孟加拉国和斯里兰卡等地。从新德里大学毕业后，他赴牛津大学圣埃德蒙学堂研修，并获社会人类学博士学位。高希以其独有的人类学者的知识背景和现实关怀，以及细腻入微的描写，构成了当代印度英语文学重要的一部分。 著作另有《理性环》（The Circle of Reason）、《阴影线》（The Shadow Lines）、《饿潮》（The Hungry Tide）以及“朱鹭号”三部曲《罂粟海》(Sea of Poppies)、《烟河》（River of Smoke）和《火海》（Flood of Fire）等十余部作品。他的作品斩获了包括法国美第奇文学奖、印度顶级文学奖挲诃德耶学院奖以及英国阿瑟•克拉克科幻奖等诸多国际大奖。2007年，他被印度总统授予印度最高荣誉“卓越贡...(展开全部)

Once upon a time, an Indian writer named Amitav Ghosh set out as an Indian slave, name unknown, who some seven hundred years before had traveled to the Middle East. The journey took him to a small village in Egypt, where medieval customs coexist with twentieth-century desires and discontents. But even as Ghosh sought to re-create the life of his Indian predecessor, he found him...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 阿米塔夫•高希（Amitav Ghosh）1956年出生于加尔各答，成长于印度、孟加拉国和斯里兰卡等地。从新德里大学毕业后，他赴牛津大学圣埃德蒙学堂研修，并获社会人类学博士学位。高希以其独有的人类学者的知识背景和现实关怀，以及细腻入微的描写，构成了当代印度英语文学重要的一部分。 著作另有《理性环》（The Circle of Reason）、《阴影线》（The Shadow Lines）、《饿潮》（The Hungry Tide）以及“朱鹭号”三部曲《罂粟海》(Sea of Poppies)、《烟河》（River of Smoke）和《火海》（Flood of Fire）等十余部作品。他的作品斩获了包括法国美第奇文学奖、印度顶级文学奖挲诃德耶学院奖以及英国阿瑟•克拉克科幻奖等诸多国际大奖。2007年，他被印度总统授予印度最高荣誉“卓越贡...(展开全部)

格兰特·埃文斯（Grant Evans），人类学家，曾任香港大学教授。

格兰特·埃文斯（Grant Evans），人类学家，曾任香港大学教授。

Books and other texts have not always been read in the way that we read them today. The modern practice of reading--privately, silently, with the eyes alone--is only one way of reading, which for many centuries existed alongside other forms. In the ancient world, in the Middle Ages, and as late as the seventeenth century, many texts were written for the voice. They were address...(展开全部)

This path--breaking study will become the standard work on the history of reading in the West. It will be indispensable to students of cultural history, and to all those who want a fresh perspective on the history of books and their uses. * Wide--ranging and authoritative account of the changing practices of reading from the ancient world to the present day. * An international...(展开全部)

This path-breaking study will become the standard work on the history of reading in the West. It will be indispensable to students of cultural history, and to all those who want a fresh perspective on the history of books and their uses. Wide-ranging and authoritative account of the changing practices of reading from the ancient world to the present day. An international t...(展开全部)

Books and other texts have not always been read in the way that we read them today. The modern practice of reading--privately, silently, with the eyes alone--is only one way of reading, which for many centuries existed alongside other forms. In the ancient world, in the Middle Ages, and as late as the seventeenth century, many texts were written for the voice. They were address...(展开全部)