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帕特里克·怀特Patrick White （1912—1990） 澳大利亚小说家、剧作家，20世纪最重要的英语作家之一。1973年因为“以融会了史诗风格和心理描写的叙事艺术，将一座新大陆引入文学地图”荣获诺贝尔文学奖。 怀特一生创作颇丰，出版有《人树》（1955）、《探险家沃斯》（1957）、《乘战车的人》（1961）、《风暴眼》（1973）、《树叶裙》（1976）等长篇小说12部，中短篇小说集3部，此外还有剧作8部，以及诗歌、自传及未出版作品多种。 怀特的作品笔触细腻、富于诗意，擅长在意识流及叙事之间自由切换，具有极高的艺术水准。怀特一生拒绝了无数文学奖项，也很少接受媒体采访。1990年9月病逝于他在悉尼的公寓。

Through the crumbling ruins of the once splendid Xanadu Miss Hare wanders, half-mad, yet seeming less alien among the encroaching wildlife than among the inhabitants of Saraparilla. In the wilderness she stumbles firstly upon a half-caste aborigine and then a Jewish refugee. They each place themselves in the care of a local washerwoman. Existing in a world of pervasive evil, al...(展开全部)

Patrick White's brilliant 1961 novel, set in an Australian suburb, intertwines four deeply different lives. An Aborigine artist, a Holocaust survivor, a beatific washerwoman, and a childlike heiress are each blessed—and stricken—with visionary experiences that may or may not allow them to transcend the machinations of their fellow men. Tender and lacerating, pure and profane, s...(展开全部)

The walk to the store isn't far. It's just through the backyard. But this backyard isn't just any backyard when viewed with the imagination. It can be a forest inhabited by a dragon and a sleeping giant. It can be rocks near a shore, with a boat just ready to take you out to sea, where there might be whales, mermaids, or even pirates Each color scene is viewed from above and f...(展开全部)

本书以“错峰旅游”为着眼点，为读者梳理全国范围内50个景点，切切实实指导读者如何错峰旅游，真正实现省钱、省心，同时享受到不一样的风景。1.省钱。景点在淡季往往都会推出巨大的优惠，较之旺季能节省大笔费用。2.省心。错峰出游，可以更好地欣赏风景，避免了“旅游就是看人头”的无趣。3.由于是淡季旅游，错峰出行，还可以发现景点出人意料的美，享受到被别人忽略的风景。本书设置基础篇，讲述错峰旅游的基本知识，让读者心中有数。

本书以“错峰旅游”为着眼点，为读者梳理全国范围内50个景点，切切实实指导读者如何错峰旅游，真正实现省钱、省心，同时享受到不一样的风景。1.省钱。景点在淡季往往都会推出巨大的优惠，较之旺季能节省大笔费用。2.省心。错峰出游，可以更好地欣赏风景，避免了“旅游就是看人头”的无趣。3.由于是淡季旅游，错峰出行，还可以发现景点出人意料的美，享受到被别人忽略的风景。本书设置基础篇，讲述错峰旅游的基本知识，让读者心中有数。

Gerald is careful. Piggie is not. Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can. Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to. Gerald and Piggie are best friends. In Let's Go for a Drive! Gerald and Piggie want to hit the road! But the best-laid plans of pigs and elephants often go awry.

In Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller remembers her African childhood with candor and sensitivity. Though it is a diary of an unruly life in an often inhospitable place, it is suffused with Fuller’s endearing ability to find laughter, even when there is little to celebrate. Fuller’s debut is unsentimental and unflinching but always captivating. In wry and so...(展开全部)

Alexandra Fuller was the daughter of white settlers in 1970s war-torn Rhodesia. Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight is a memoir of that time, when a schoolgirl was as likely to carry a shotgun as a satchel. Fuller tells a story of civil war; of a quixotic battle against nature and loss; and of her family's unbreakable bond with a continent which came to define, shape, scar and h...(展开全部)