Werner Herzog's Of Walking on Ice, a fever-dream of a book, one (mule-like) man's febrile pilgrimage to save an ailing friend. Herzog was contacted and told that his mentor Lotte Eisner was dying of cancer, and he became possessed with the idea that if he walked to her in Paris from his Munich home she would live. The account is frayed and hallucinatory: Herzog walks through bl...(展开全部)

In the winter of 1974, filmmaker Werner Herzog made a three week solo journey from Munich to Paris on foot. He believed it was the only way his close friend, film historian Lotte Eisner, would survive a horrible sickness that had overtaken her. During this monumental odyssey through a seemingly endless blizzard, Herzog documented everything he saw and felt with intense sincerit...(展开全部)

沃纳·赫尔佐格 Werner Herzog（1942 -）。享誉国际的新德国电影大师之一，与文 德 斯（Wim Wenders）、法斯宾德（Rainer Werner Fassbinder）齐名。赫尔佐格1942年出生于慕尼黑，1962年起开始制作、拍摄电影与短片，1 968年他的第一部长片《生命的讯息》 （Signs of Life）获柏林影展银熊奖；1972年《天谴》 （Aguirre，the Wrath of God）被英国《视与听》杂志评为年度十大佳片之首，他也成为国际影坛最受瞩目的德国青年导演；1974年《人人为自己,上帝反众人》（The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser）获戛纳电影节评审团大奖；1982年又有 《陆上行舟》（Fitzcarraldo）获戛纳电影节最佳导演奖。 他同时还拍摄了大量深具影响力的纪录片，包括获奖无数...(展开全部)

The ravaged continent of Genabackis has given birth to a terrifying new empire: the Pannion Domin. Like a tide of corrupted blood, it seethes across the land, devouring all. In its path stands an uneasy alliance: Onearm's army and Whiskeyjack's Bridgeburners alongside their enemies of old--the forces of the Warlord Caladan Brood, Anomander Rake and his Tiste Andii mages, and th...(展开全部)

A triumph of storytelling and the latest thrilling chapter in Steven Erikson’s magnificent fantasy. The ravaged continent of Genabackis has given birth to a terrifying new empire: the Pannion Domin. A boiling tale of corrupted blood, it seethes across the land, devouring all who fail to heed the Word of its elusive prophet. In its path stands an uneasy alliance: Dujek Onearm’s...(展开全部)

In this captivating book, neuroscientist Shane O’Mara invites us to marvel at the benefits walking confers on our bodies and brains— ones we’ve all come to appreciate after months indoors. O’Mara traces walking’s evolutionary origins to life forms on the ocean floor, reveals new findings from cutting- edge research, and reminds us to get out of our chairs and discover a happier...(展开全部)

In this captivating book, neuroscientist Shane O’Mara invites us to marvel at the benefits walking confers on our bodies and brains— ones we’ve all come to appreciate after months indoors. O’Mara traces walking’s evolutionary origins to life forms on the ocean floor, reveals new findings from cutting- edge research, and reminds us to get out of our chairs and discover a happier...(展开全部)