After decades of internecine warfare, the tribes of the Tiste Edur have at last united under the Warlock King of the Hiroth. There is peacebut it has been exacted at a terrible price: a pact made with a hidden power whose motives are at best suspect, at worst, deadly. To the south, the expansionist kingdom of Lether, eager to fulfill its long-prophesized renaissance as an Empir...(展开全部)

The basis for the new Pirates of the Caribbean film starring Johnny Depp, On Stranger Tides is Tim Powers great Disneyland ride through pirates, puppeteers, treasure, and thrill a minute action that carries on from the start.

The basis for the new Pirates of the Caribbean film starring Johnny Depp, On Stranger Tides is Tim Powers great Disneyland ride through pirates, puppeteers, treasure, and thrill a minute action that carries on from the start.

提姆·鲍尔斯，当代科幻奇幻领域最具想象力的作家之一。1952年出生于美国纽约州布法罗市。曾两获世界奇幻奖，两获菲利普·狄克奖，三次提名星云奖，亦是国际恐怖协会奖得主。

The basis for the new Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides film starring Johnny Depp, On Stranger Tides is Tim Powers's great Disneyland ride through pirates, puppeteers, treasure, and thrill-a-minute action that carries on from the start as it follows the exploits of John 'Jack Shandy' Chandagnac, who travels to the new world after the death of his puppeteer father ...(展开全部)

A novel about the violence and corruption in Nationalist China in the 1930's by Shen Yanbing (1896-1981), better known by the pen name Mao Tun, was a member of the generation that created a truly vernacular Chinese literature in the early twentieth century. After the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, he was named Minister of Culture. The central figure in the ...(展开全部)

A novel about the violence and corruption in Nationalist China in the 1930's by Shen Yanbing (1896-1981), better known by the pen name Mao Tun, was a member of the generation that created a truly vernacular Chinese literature in the early twentieth century. After the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, he was named Minister of Culture. The central figure in the ...(展开全部)

We are all in need of lights to follow. One afternoon many years ago, James Rebanks met an old woman on a remote Norwegian island. She lived and worked alone on a tiny rocky outcrop, caring for wild Eider ducks and gathering their down. Hers was a centuries-old trade that had once made men and women rich, but had long been in decline. Still, somehow, she seemed to be hanging on...(展开全部)