An homage to Africa's people and wildlife. Sebastião Salgado is one the most respected photojournalists working today, his reputation fo rged by decades of dedication and powerful black-and-white images of dispossessed and distressed people taken in places where most wouldn’t dare to go. Although he has photographed throughout South America and around the globe, his work most h...(展开全部)

Shipwrecked castaway Lemuel Gulliver's encounters with the petty, diminutive Lilliputians, the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the abstracted scientists of Laputa, the philosophical Houyhnhnms, and the brutish Yahoos give him new, bitter insights into human behavior. Swift's fantastic and subversive book remains supremely relevant in our own age of distortion, hypocrisy, and irony...(展开全部)

该书通过里梅尔·格列佛船长之口，叙述了周游四国的奇特经历。但仔细体会，却处处揭露着英国社会的黑暗现实，并寄寓着作者的理想。 虽然格列佛起初以为小人国与英国毫不相像，但实际上小人国却是英国的写照.透过那似是荒谬的逻辑，我们看到的是：国王比他的臣民只高出一个指甲，却狂妄地自命为头顶天的宇宙统治者，以其无常的喜怒决定老百姓的命运。官吏们也无需德才兼备，只要跳绳跳得高，就可得到高官厚禄。 小人国的两党以鞋跟高矮为区分标志，这里影射的是当年英国的托利党（即保守党的前身）和辉格党（后来发展成自由党）两党政治；而吃鸡蛋时是从大头敲开还是从小头敲开，则指的是天主教与新教（亦称清教，即加尔文教派）之间关于教会仪式的无稽之争。为了这一区区争端，竟导致了小人国的内战，甚至殃及邻国。由于小人国里的警察制度和诬告成风，格列佛不得不逃离那里。 大人国的人无论体力还是理智都超过了...(展开全部)

Jonathan Swift's classic satirical narrative was first published in 1726, seven years after Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (one of its few rivals in fame and breadth of appeal). As a parody travel-memoir it reports on extraordinary lands and societies, whose names have entered the English language: notably the minute inhabitants of Lilliput, the giants of Brobdingnag, and the Yahoos i...(展开全部)

Jonathan Swift's classic satirical narrative was first published in 1726, seven years after Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (one of its few rivals in fame and breadth of appeal). As a parody travel-memoir it reports on extraordinary lands and societies, whose names have entered the English language: notably the minute inhabitants of Lilliput, the giants of Brobdingnag, and the Yahoos i...(展开全部)

该书通过里梅尔·格列佛船长之口，叙述了周游四国的奇特经历。但仔细体会，却处处揭露着英国社会的黑暗现实，并寄寓着作者的理想。 虽然格列佛起初以为小人国与英国毫不相像，但实际上小人国却是英国的写照.透过那似是荒谬的逻辑，我们看到的是：国王比他的臣民只高出一个指甲，却狂妄地自命为头顶天的宇宙统治者，以其无常的喜怒决定老百姓的命运。官吏们也无需德才兼备，只要跳绳跳得高，就可得到高官厚禄。 小人国的两党以鞋跟高矮为区分标志，这里影射的是当年英国的托利党（即保守党的前身）和辉格党（后来发展成自由党）两党政治；而吃鸡蛋时是从大头敲开还是从小头敲开，则指的是天主教与新教（亦称清教，即加尔文教派）之间关于教会仪式的无稽之争。为了这一区区争端，竟导致了小人国的内战，甚至殃及邻国。由于小人国里的警察制度和诬告成风，格列佛不得不逃离那里。 大人国的人无论体力还是理智都超过了...(展开全部)

In this book, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells with classic simplicity of the ways of the country and the natives: of the beauty of the Ngong Hills and coffee trees in blossom: of her guests, from the Prince of Wales to Knudsen, the old charcoal burner, who visited her: of primitive festivals: of big game ...(展开全部)

In this book, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells with classic simplicity of the ways of the country and the natives: of the beauty of the Ngong Hills and coffee trees in blossom: of her guests, from the Prince of Wales to Knudsen, the old charcoal burner, who visited her: of primitive festivals: of big game ...(展开全部)

Karen Blixen (who wrote under the pseudonym Isak Dinesen) knew the African countryside as intimately as her own face in the mirror. "The civilized people," she wrote, "have lost the aptitude of stillness, and must take lessons in silence from the wild before they are accepted by it." From her own wild heart she wrote this achingly beautiful book.

New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year A Boston Globe Best Book of 2010 A Christian Science Monitor Best Book of 2010 A San Francisco Chronicle Top 10 Books of 2010 A Washington Post Best Book of the Year A Kansas City Star 100 Best Books of 2010 A St. Louis Post-Dispatch Best of 2010 In this astonishing new work from one of our greatest and most entertaining story...(展开全部)