Sir David Attenborough is Britain's best-known natural history film-maker. His career as a naturalist and broadcaster has spanned nearly six decades, and in this volume of memoirs Sir David tells stories of the people and animals he has met and the places he has visited. His first job - after Cambridge University and two years in the Royal Navy - was at a London publishing hous...(展开全部)

大卫·爱登堡，英国广播公司（BBC）电视节目主持人、制作人。他不仅是一位杰出的自然博物学家，还是勇敢无畏的探险家和旅行家，他被认为是有史以来旅行路程最长的人，几乎亲身探索过地球上已知的所有生态环境。他还被誉为“自然纪录片之父”，制作了“生命三部曲”、《地球脉动》等多部享誉全球的纪录片。1985 年，大卫·爱登堡被授封为爵士；2005年，爱登堡获颁皇室功绩勋章。大卫爵士还是大英博物馆和皇家植物园的托管人、皇家鸟类保护学会副总裁和皇家自然保护学会主席。

For fifty years David Attenborough has entertained, educated, and generally enchanted millions worldwide with his pursuit of the secrets of life in its many guises. For such groundbreaking television series as "Life on Earth", "The Private Life of Plants", and "The Life of Birds", he has travelled to the ends of the earth to give viewers their first (and often only) close look ...(展开全部)

When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous descent from 29,028 feet, twenty other climbers were still pushing doggedly toward the top.  No one had noticed that the sky had begun to fi...(展开全部)

大卫·爱登堡，英国广播公司（BBC）电视节目主持人、制作人。他不仅是一位杰出的自然博物学家，还是勇敢无畏的探险家和旅行家，他被认为是有史以来旅行路程最长的人，几乎亲身探索过地球上已知的所有生态环境。他还被誉为“自然纪录片之父”，制作了“生命三部曲”、《地球脉动》等多部享誉全球的纪录片。1985 年，大卫·爱登堡被授封为爵士；2005年，爱登堡获颁皇室功绩勋章。大卫爵士还是大英博物馆和皇家植物园的托管人、皇家鸟类保护学会副总裁和皇家自然保护学会主席。

George Bowling, the hero of this comic novel, is a middle-aged insurance salesman who lives in an average English suburban row house with a wife and two children. One day, after winning some money from a bet, he goes back to the village where he grew up, to fish for carp in a pool he remembers from thirty years before. The pool, alas, is gone, the village has changed beyond rec...(展开全部)

George Bowling, the hero of this comic novel, is a middle-aged insurance salesman who lives in an average English suburban row house with a wife and two children. One day, after winning some money from a bet, he goes back to the village where he grew up, to fish for carp in a pool he remembers from thirty years before. The pool, alas, is gone, the village has changed beyond rec...(展开全部)

Bilingual Edition -- German/English Hans Magnus Enzensberger is Germany's most important and influential living poet, a lightning rod in a stormy political and cultural landscape. (Translations of his Kiosk and Selected Poems have also been published by Sheep Meadow.) Having come of age after the Third Reich, Enzensberger builds his poetry upon tradition and titanic German wrec...(展开全部)

Whether visiting the King of the Lozis at a bend in the Zambezi river or crossing the United States in a railway car of unsurpassable luxury, relating his experiments with biblical dieting, or detailing the illneses and diseases suffered in half a lifetime of travel, Paul Theroux, the fresh-air fiend himself, is always an entertaining and honest guide. Full of startling encount...(展开全部)