乔纳森·斯拉特（Jonathan C. Slaght） 美国德鲁大学学士，明尼苏达大学硕士、博士，野生动物保护协会（WCS）温带亚洲项目区域主任，负责监督WCS在中国、蒙古和阿富汗的工程，以及在俄罗斯和中亚地区的项目。他的研究项目是毛腿渔鸮、东北虎等濒危物种，并协助WCS调研从北极到热带地区的东亚—澳大拉西亚飞行路线上的鸟类保护活动。他目前是世界上研究毛腿渔鸮的重要专家之一。斯拉特的文章、研究、摄影多见于《纽约时报》《卫报》《史密森尼学刊》《纽约客》等媒体。 任晴 （译者） 美国佛蒙特大学自然资源博士，美国佛蒙特州可持续发展学校研究所评估与项目研究员。译有《鸟的智慧》《猫头鹰的秘密生活》。

Duration: 08:43:51 A field scientist and conservationist tracks the elusive Blakiston's Fish Owl in the forbidding reaches of eastern Russia When he was just a fledgling birdwatcher, Jonathan C. Slaght had a chance encounter with one of the most mysterious birds on Earth. Bigger than any owl he knew, it looked like a small bear with decorative feathers. He snapped a quick photo...(展开全部)

'Remarkable. If only every endangered species had a guardian angel as impassioned, courageous and pragmatic as Jonathan Slaght' Isabella Tree, author of Wilding 'Gripping' Dave Goulson, author of A Sting in the Tale Primorye, a remote forested region near to where Russia, China and North Korea meet in a tangle of barbed wire, is the only place where brown bears, tigers and leop...(展开全部)

For nearly six centuries, scientists have been documenting the plants and fungi of the world through herbaria. The wealth of specimens available today, carefully preserved through the centuries, is a unique source of data that not only helps scientists understand how the world's vegetation has changed over time, but also allows them to predict how it will change in the future. ...(展开全部)

"The Owl and the Pussycat" is the winner of the 2008 Governor General's Award for Children's Literature (English Language, Illustration).Visions in Poetry is an innovative and award-winning series of classic poems re-interpreted for today's readers by outstanding contemporary artists in distinctively beautiful editions. The sixth Visions in Poetry book is "The Owl and the Pussy...(展开全部)

A board book edition of the acclaimed picture book offers a beautifully illustrated, richly detailed version of Lear's nonsense verse about the whimsical adventures of the romantic Owl and Pussycat."

"Brett sets Lear's beloved poem of courtly nonsense in a lush, brilliantly lit Caribbean landscape . . . her gorgeously colored double-page spreads combine deadpan realism with the wildest flights of fancy and a mocking undercurrent in setting and character."--Booklist, starred review. Full color.

吉纳维芙·冯·佩金格尔（Genevieve von Petzinger） 加拿大古人类学家、岩画研究专家，专注于对欧洲冰河世纪早期（约4万到1万年前）岩画遗址中几何图形的研究，她利用从欧洲400多处史前遗址收集来的5000多个符号，建立起了一个独一无二的数据库。2011年成为TED全球研究员，2013-2015年当选TED高级研究员，2016年被选为美国《国家地理》“新晋探险家”，作品见于《新科学家》《科学画报》等科普杂志。她于2015年发表的TED演讲已有超过650万人次观看。

作者簡介 查理‧英格利許（Charlie English） 英國皇家地理學會研究員、《衛報》前國際新聞組組長。十九歲時首次前往非洲旅遊，做了既深而廣的探索，之後遊歷世界各國，經驗豐富。文章常見於各大報。 為了撰寫廷巴克圖的故事，他在得知手抄本並未被毀的消息後，辭去了《衛報》的工作。 譯者簡介 蔡耀緯 臺灣大學歷史學研究所碩士，現為自由譯者。譯有《1921穿越福爾摩沙：一位英國作家的臺灣旅行》、《平凡的美德：分歧世界的道德秩序》、《大歷史：從宇宙大霹靂到今天的人類世界》（合譯）、《臺灣邊疆的治理與政治經濟（1600-1800）》（合譯）、《恐怖的總合》（合譯）等。

"An Introduction to the World's Oceans, Tenth Edition", is an introductory oceanography text intended for students without a background in mathematics, chemistry, physics, geology, or biology. It emphasizes the role of basic scientific principles in helping understand the processes that govern the ocean and the earth. To keep the text as current as possible, the authors conduct...(展开全部)