贝兹·卓辛格 Baz Dreisinger，纽约市立大学约翰·杰伊刑事司法学院（John Jay College of Criminal Justice）副教授，也是美国知名Prison-to-College计划的创办人，这项计划旨在为囚犯提供出狱后上大学的机会。贝兹·卓辛格同时是一位记者 ，为《纽约时报》《洛杉矶时报》《华尔街日报》等媒体撰稿，谈论内容包括流行音乐、种族议题等。 译者 陈岳辰，台湾师范大学翻译研究所毕业，现任专业口笔译者、大学兼任讲师，译作有《诱惑者的日记》《死亡之门》《非理性时代：天使微积分》《原罪》等。

In February 1956, Arnold Toynbee, just retired after more than 30 years at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London, set out on a 17-month journey around the world. He wanted to visit Asia and Latin America. We travel with him to Ecuador, Peru, New Zealand, Australia, Vietnam, Manila, Hong Kong, Japan, India and the Middle East. The journey is very worthwhile. ...(展开全部)

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - Mr. Phileas Fogg lived, in 1872, at No. 7, Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, the house in which Sheridan died in 1814. He was one of the most ...(展开全部)

Jules Verne's career as a novelist began in 1863, when he struck a new vein in fiction - stories that combined popular science and exploration. In "Around the World in Eighty Days", Phileas Fogg rashly bets his companions GBP20,000 that he can travel around the entire globe in just eighty days - and he is determined not to lose. Breaking the well-established routine of his dail...(展开全部)

This title is to tie in with a major new Channel 4 series: a brilliant mixture of travel, cultural exchange and fair trade.Economist Conor Woodman has decided to test his negotiating skills, charm and eye for a bargain against some of the world's oldest trading cultures. He's sold his house to finance the trip, but if his hunches are right - trading Sudanese camels for Kenyan c...(展开全部)

Economist Conor Woodman has decided to test his negotiating skills, charm and eye for a bargain against some of the world's oldest trading cultures. He's sold his house to finance the trip, but if his hunches are right trading Sudanese camels for Zambian coffee, coffee for South African red wine and then off to China to buy jade with the proceeds he'll return six months later w...(展开全部)

Economist Conor Woodman has decided to test his negotiating skills, charm and eye for a bargain against some of the world's oldest trading cultures. He's sold his house to finance the trip, but if his hunches are right trading Sudanese camels for Zambian coffee, coffee for South African red wine and then off to China to buy jade with the proceeds he'll return six months later w...(展开全部)

This title is to tie in with a major new Channel 4 series: a brilliant mixture of travel, cultural exchange and fair trade.Economist Conor Woodman has decided to test his negotiating skills, charm and eye for a bargain against some of the world's oldest trading cultures. He's sold his house to finance the trip, but if his hunches are right - trading Sudanese camels for Kenyan c...(展开全部)

A transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, through classic and modern literary works that are in conversation with one another and with the world around them *Featured in the Chicago Tribune's Great 2021 Fall Book Preview * One of Smithsonian Magazine's Ten Best Books About Travel of 2021* Inspired by Jules Verne’s hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harva...(展开全部)

Inspired by Jules Verne's hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard's Department of Comparative Literature and founder of Harvard's Institute for World Literature, set out to counter a pandemic's restrictions on travel by exploring eighty exceptional books from around the globe. Following a literary itinerary from London to Venice, Tehran and points beyond, and via au...(展开全部)