[英] 玛格丽特·米（Margaret Mee）著 英国植物艺术家、探险家，专注于亚马孙森林植物研究。她的作品深受世界各地的植物学家和艺术评论家的赞誉。 1909年5月22日，玛格丽特出生在英国中产之家，早期受过良好的文化、艺术和戏剧教育，战争时期帮助好友躲避纳粹， 后进入飞机制造工厂绘制图纸为国效力。1956年，47岁的她进入了巴西雨林，开始了长达32年的森林探险，为植物科学和环保事业奉献了自己的后半生。她曾先后15次深入亚马孙流域的勘探，记录和绘制那里的珍奇植物。由她发现和命名的植物，便有9种之多。1988年11月30日晚，她在莱斯特的交通意外中去世。在其后举办的追思会中，英国菲利普亲王及巴西政要均到场致哀。 她曾获得： 🏆 1971 · 古根海姆奖 🎖 1976 · 大英帝国员佐勋章 🎖 1979 · 巴西共和国南十字星勋章 🏅 1986 · ...(展开全部)

Margaret Mee must rank as one of the most remarkable women of the twentieth century. She was an intrepid explorer of the Brazilian rainforest and an outstanding botanical artist, acclaimed by botanists and art critics worldwide. At the age of 47, Mee started exploring the Amazon in the footsteps of great British explorers such as Richard Spruce and Henry Walter Bates travelling...(展开全部)

An Artist of the Floating World (1986) is a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. It is set in post-World War II Japan and is narrated by Masuji Ono, an ageing painter, who looks back on his life and how he has lived it. He notices how his once great reputation has faltered since the war and how attitudes towards him and his paintings have changed. The chief conflict deals with Ono's need t...(展开全部)

石黑一雄：一九五四年生于日本长崎，五岁时随其父前往英国定居。他迄今共出版六部长篇小说，其作品已被翻译成三十多种语言。他的每部长篇小说都曾获欧美的文学奖项，其中包括一次英国布克奖(《长日留痕》)，另加三次该奖提名。

石黑一雄：一九五四年生于日本长崎，五岁时随其父前往英国定居。他迄今共出版六部长篇小说，其作品已被翻译成三十多种语言。他的每部长篇小说都曾获欧美的文学奖项，其中包括一次英国布克奖(《长日留痕》)，另加三次该奖提名。

An Artist of the Floating World (1986) is a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. It is set in post-World War II Japan and is narrated by Masuji Ono, an ageing painter, who looks back on his life and how he has lived it. He notices how his once great reputation has faltered since the war and how attitudes towards him and his paintings have changed. The chief conflict deals with Ono's need t...(展开全部)

As a young boy, Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894-1986) set about passionately recording his life in photographs, first documenting his domestic circle and later capturing the auto races, air shows, and fashionable watering holes of the Belle poque. His images have so bewitched modern viewers that even scholars have failed to see them clearly. In Jacques Henri Lartigue: The Inventio...(展开全部)

One of the most accomplished, acclaimed, and garlanded writers, Hilary Mantel delivers a brilliant collection of contemporary stories In The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher, Hilary Mantel’s trademark gifts of penetrating characterization, unsparing eye, and rascally intelligence are once again fully on display. Stories of dislocation and family fracture, of whimsical infidel...(展开全部)

Following Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work!, both New York Times bestsellers with 614,000 copies in print, The Steal Like an Artist Journal is the next step in the journey. It combines Kleon's unique and compelling ideas on being creative with the physical quality that makes journals like Moleskines so enormously popular. Its page after page of ideas, prompts, quotes, an...(展开全部)

Introduction by Anthony Brandt.</p> Over the course of three decades in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Swedish geographer and explorer Sven Hedin traveled Central Asia¼s ancient Silk Road, along the way discovering lost cities, mapping uncharted rivers, and seeing more of &#147;the roof of the world&#148; than any European before him. Illustrated with 160 sketches ...(展开全部)