Following in the footsteps of great explorers such as Lawrence of Arabia and Wilfred Thesiger, Arabia is Levison Wood's account of his most complex expedition yet: circumnavigating the Arabian Peninsula. Travelling through some of the harshest and most beautiful environments on earth, he seeks to challenge our perceptions of an often misunderstood part of the world, seeing how ...(展开全部)

"ONE OF THE FIRST POLITICAL CLASSICS OF THE 21st CENTURY". (Observer). "EXTRAORDINARILY POWERFUL, POIGNANT AND AFFECTING. I WAS GREATLY MOVED". (Michael Palin). FOREWORD BY CHRISTINA LAMB. Journalist Samar Yazbek was forced into exile by Assad's regime. When the uprising in Syria turned to bloodshed, she was determined to take action and secretly returned several times. The Cro...(展开全部)

杰里米•普尔曼，生于英国，在英国接受教育，迄今已发表七部著作。他的第一部著作《关于亚利桑那州的有趣事实》为他赢得了英联邦作家大奖和最佳处女作奖。随后他又发表了《勇敢者之歌》《我的美国》和《皮肤》。他的纪实类作品包括为伊丽莎白•贝肯•卡斯特写的传记《掩藏的伤口》和为他曾曾祖父吉普赛•杰姆•梅斯所写的传记，他这位祖先是世界上最后一位不带手套拳击的重量级世界冠军。

The Road of Bones is the story of Russia's greatest road. For over 200 years, the route of the Vladimirka Road has been at the centre of the nation's history, having witnessed everything from the first human footsteps to the rise of Putin and his oil-rich oligarchy. Tsars, wars, famine and wealth: all have crossed and travelled this road, but no-one has ever told its story. In...(展开全部)

Kate Losse was a grad school refugee when she joined Facebook as employee #51 in 2005. Hired to answer user questions such as "What is a poke?" and "Why can’t I access my ex-girlfriend’s profile?" her early days at the company were characterized by a sense of camaraderie, promise, and ambition: Here was a group of scrappy young upstarts on a mission to rock Silicon Valley and c...(展开全部)

This novel, which has always been regarded as one of Scott's finest, opens with the Edinburgh riots of 1736. The people of the city have been infuriated by the actions of John Porteous, Captain of the Guard, and when they hear that his death has been reprieved by the distant monarch they ignore the Queen and resolve to take their own revenge. At the cente of the story is Edin...(展开全部)

The Heart of Mid-Lothian is precisely focused on the trials for murder of John Porteous and of Effie Deans in 1736 and 1737. Yet it is a chronicle--Scott's only chronicle--which spans the eighty years of the life of David Deans, whose death takes place in 1751. It is the most complex of all Scott's narratives. It is also the most challenging in that it raises in an acute fashio...(展开全部)

扎克斯·穆达 Zakes Mda | 1948— 南非著名剧作家、小说家和诗人，不仅是最受欢迎的南非英语文学作家之一，也是南非文学史上最受关注的黑人作家之一。 穆达一生动荡波折，但笔耕不辍。他创作的戏剧曾在多个国家上演，后结集出版，获得1978年和1979年“阿姆斯特尔年度剧作家奖”，1984年美国戏剧协会“克里斯蒂娜·克劳福德奖”，1995年“桑勒姆文学奖”，1996年南部非洲英语文学最高奖“奥利弗·施赖纳奖”等。他的《扎克斯·穆达戏剧集》被译成南非的11种官方语言出版。 1995年至今，穆达共出版了12部小说，其中《红色之心》（2000）、《与黑共舞》（1995）等小说被译为20多种语言在世界各地广泛传播，为他赢得了包括“英联邦作家奖最佳小说奖”“巴里·罗杰小说奖”“奥莉芙·旭莱纳小说奖”等在内的众多重要文学奖项。2014年，南非政府授予穆达南...(展开全部)

Camugu, recently returned to Johannesburg and disillusioned by the new democracy, moves to the remote Eastern Cape. There in the nineteenth century a teenage prophetess commanded the Xhosa people to kill their cattle and burn their crops, promising that the spirits of their ancestors would rise and drive the English into the ocean. The failed prophecy split the people in two, w...(展开全部)

With a new introduction by James Wood Scobie, a police officer serving in a wartime west-African state, is distrusted — being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in so doing, he is forced to betray everything he believes in, with drastic and tragic consequences.