Sid the pigeon is very choosy about finding just the right home in the magnificent city of san Francisco. And find it he does, in the loop of a huge b in an electric sign high up on a skyscraper. sidas view of san Francisco is without equal. so sid asks the lovely dove Midge to share his home. but one morning, while Midge is taking her turn sitting on two eggs, disaster strikes...(展开全部)

Darren Shan, the vampire's assistant, is forced to march to Vampire Mountain where he will be judged by the vampire princes. Darren Shan and Mr Crepsley make a long and dangerous trek to the vampire's stronghold in the mountains. The trek is a test of skill and endurance - one which sees Darren's vampire nature develop, and a new understanding of the mysterious blue-robed serva...(展开全部)

劳拉·亚当斯·阿默（1874—1963），美国著名作家和艺术家，纽伯瑞儿童文学奖金奖得主。她曾在加利佛尼亚设计学院读书，1924年，移居亚利桑那州。1928年，她担任《Mountain Chant》的制片。劳拉·亚当斯·阿默在摄影方面颇具建树，印第安传统文化都在她的创作中留下明显印记。 1932年，她的小说《荒泉山》获得当年的纽伯瑞金奖。

Written in the 1930s by an authority on Native American life and lore, this Newbery Medal winner chronicles a boy's journey toward finding his vocation as a medicine man. Younger Brother's coming-of-age story and his tutelage by his priestly Uncle form the basis for a vivid portrait of Navajo beliefs and traditions.

帕诺威奇是美国南方一名土生土长的佐治亚人，他的两部短篇小说《假若我终有一日能下山》和《下山》曾获得2013年“惊奇奖”提名（Spinetingler Prize)。《公牛山》是该系列的第一部长篇小说。

本書為短篇小說集，收錄包括〈Brokeback Mountain斷背山〉等多篇作品。 《紐約時報》書評：「對《Close Range》書中角色而言，壯觀富麗又震懾人心的地理是他們的守護神。書中人物的生活是奮力向前卻徒勞無功的上坡路，下坡路卻是狂亂失控的旅程。普露以散文體書寫人物，筆法狂暴﹑震撼﹑嫻熟，一筆將人物帶至邊緣，再作勢讓人物超越極限。」 《華盛頓郵報．書香世界》：「散文體的筆法，加上故事的創意，讓本書瑩潤光明。書中每一句文詞均令人讚嘆，令人拍案叫絕。」 本書收錄以懷俄明州為背景的11則短篇，有多篇單篇獲獎，其中〈斷背山〉榮獲1998年歐‧亨利短篇小說獎和全美雜誌獎。 作者Annie Proulx描繪出在殘酷艱難的自然環境下，命運多舛的角色，顯現熟練出色的文字和對懷俄明狂烈的摯愛。奇異、非現實的元素，為故事添上許多色彩，更淬...(展开全部)

Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland. There she encounters a world that can be breathtakingly beautiful at times and shockingly harsh at others. Her intense, poetic prose explores and records the rocks, rivers, creatures and hidden aspects of this remarkable landscape. Shepherd spent a lifetime in search of the "essential nature" of the C...(展开全部)

作者簡介 彼得‧Peter Boardman 彼得．博德曼出生於1950年聖誕節，其後成為英國最受敬重的高海拔登山家之一。他曾是凱恩戈姆國家公園格蘭莫爾山屋（Glenmore Lodge）的登山指導員，也是英國登山協會的全國事務官，之後被任命為瑞士萊辛（Leysin）國際登山學校總監。 他是1975年克里斯．鮑寧頓聖母峰遠征隊的一員，1976年他與喬．塔斯克成功登上難度幾近無法攀越的強卡邦峰，接著又攀登了干城章嘉峰（Kangchenjunga），並且嘗試攻克K2的峰頂，但惡劣天氣加上體力耗竭而功敗垂成。 隨後是1981年的公格爾峰（Mount Kongur），並在1982年3月參加克里斯．鮑寧頓、喬．塔斯克和迪克．阮修的小型遠征隊，他試圖首攀高難度的聖母峰東北脊，途中與喬．塔斯克兩人不幸喪命。 彼得和喬留下了兩則傳奇。一則是他們偉大的努力，以大膽、輕...(展开全部)

In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps--a community devoted exclusively to sickness--as a microcosm for Europe, which in the years before 1914 was already exhibiting the first symptoms of its own terminal irrationality. The Magic Mountain is a monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, a book that p...(展开全部)

The Living Mountain is a lyrical testament in praise of the Cairngorms. It is a work deeply rooted in Nan Shepherd's knowledge of the natural world, and a poetic and philosophical meditation on our longing for high and holy places. Drawing on different perspectives of the mountain environment, Shepherd makes the familiar strange and the strange awe-inspiring. Her sensitivity a...(展开全部)