As the audacious Monkey King battles his way through a landscape of inexplicable places and unfamiliar passions, Further Adventures on the Journey to the West offers a wry, revisionist critique of the late-Ming fascination with desire. Building on the great sixteenth-century novel Journey to the West, which recounts the escapades of a monk and three companions traveling to Indi...(展开全部)

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)

In simple, mesmerizing prose, Hermann Hesse tells of a journey both geographic and spiritual. H.H., a German choirmaster, is invited on an expedition with the League, a secret society whose members include Paul Klee, Mozart, and Albertus Magnus. The participants traverse both space and time, encountering Noah's Ark in Zurich and Don Quixote at Bremgarten. The pilgrims' ultimate...(展开全部)

In simple, mesmerizing prose, Hermann Hesse tells of a journey both geographic and spiritual. H.H., a German choirmaster, is invited on an expedition with the League, a secret society whose members include Paul Klee, Mozart, and Albertus Magnus. The participants traverse both space and time, encountering Noah's Ark in Zurich and Don Quixote at Bremgarten. The pilgrims' ultimate...(展开全部)

A New York Times Notable Book of 2015 "Surprising and richly satisfying" (Megan Marshall); "beautifully crafted…subtle, polished, and poised" (Stacy Schiff). In 1871, five young girls were sent by the Japanese government to the United States. Their mission: learn Western ways and return to help nurture a new generation of enlightened men to lead Japan. Raised in traditional sam...(展开全部)

作者简介： 彼得·L.斯托克(Peter L.Storck)， 威斯康辛大学麦迪逊分校人类学博士，专业为环境考古学。皇家安大略博物馆人类学系荣休高级馆长。著有《重返冰河时代》《费希尔遗址》等。 译者简介： 陈虹，浙江大学文物与博物馆学系教授博士生导师，加拿大皇家安大略博物馆访问学者，主要研究方向为旧石器考古、考古痕迹学研究（玉石器），出版专著《鉴微寻踪：旧石器时代石英岩石制品的微痕与功能研究》《微研大义：石器微痕研究与思考》等。 刘吉颖，先后在浙江大学获得考古学学士、硕士和博士学位，2022年10月加入北京师范大学历史学院从事博士后工作，研究方向为旧石器考古、近东考古和科技考古（微痕分析）。 陈冉，先后获得浙江大学学士、美国斯坦福大学硕士学位，目前为美国亚利桑那大学人类学系博士生。主要研究方向为石制品分析、微痕分析、微植物残留物分析。

作者简介： 彼得·L.斯托克(Peter L.Storck)， 威斯康辛大学麦迪逊分校人类学博士，专业为环境考古学。皇家安大略博物馆人类学系荣休高级馆长。著有《重返冰河时代》《费希尔遗址》等。 译者简介： 陈虹，浙江大学文物与博物馆学系教授博士生导师，加拿大皇家安大略博物馆访问学者，主要研究方向为旧石器考古、考古痕迹学研究（玉石器），出版专著《鉴微寻踪：旧石器时代石英岩石制品的微痕与功能研究》《微研大义：石器微痕研究与思考》等。 刘吉颖，先后在浙江大学获得考古学学士、硕士和博士学位，2022年10月加入北京师范大学历史学院从事博士后工作，研究方向为旧石器考古、近东考古和科技考古（微痕分析）。 陈冉，先后获得浙江大学学士、美国斯坦福大学硕士学位，目前为美国亚利桑那大学人类学系博士生。主要研究方向为石制品分析、微痕分析、微植物残留物分析。

Sent in 1910 to live with distant relatives who own a rubber plantation along the Amazon River, English orphan Maia is excited. She believes she is in for brightly colored macaws, enormous butterflies, and "curtains of sweetly scented orchids trailing from the trees." Her British classmates warn her of man-eating alligators and wild, murderous Indians. Unfortunately, no one...(展开全部)

Accompanied by Miss Minton, a fierce-looking, no-nonsense governess, Maia, a young orphan, sets off for the wilderness of the Amazon, expecting curtains of orchids, brightly colored macaws, and a loving family. But what she finds is an evil-tempered aunt and uncle and their spoiled daughters. It is only when she is swept up in a mystery involving a young Indian boy, a homesick...(展开全部)

Toward the end of the thirteenth century, at about the time Marco Polo was being received by the great Khubilai Khan, a Nestorian Christian monk from China called Rabban Sauma was making the reverse journey from the Mongol capital (what is now Beijing) to Jerusalem. Upon reaching Baghdad—the first traveler to arrive from China—Sauma learned that his pilgrimage could not be fulf...(展开全部)