A collection of 50 illustrated penguins and other sea birds from street-artist and ornithologist Matt Sewell. Did you know... The Galápagos Penguin's speckled markings make each of them as unique as a snowflake? The Emperor Penguin weighs the same as a Labrador retriever? The Adélie Penguin takes its name from the sweetheart of a Napoleonic naval captain turned explorer? From t...(展开全部)

A collection of 50 illustrated penguins and other sea birds from street-artist and ornithologist Matt Sewell. Did you know... The Galápagos Penguin's speckled markings make each of them as unique as a snowflake? The Emperor Penguin weighs the same as a Labrador retriever? The Adélie Penguin takes its name from the sweetheart of a Napoleonic naval captain turned explorer? From t...(展开全部)

Penguins are among the world’s most beloved birds. In this enchanting guide, Matt Sewell captures 50 species of penguins and other sea bird favorites like puffins and albatrosses. From the Little Penguin, who is only 13 inches tall, to the Fiordland Crested Penguin, who sports bushy yellow eyebrows, these charismatic birds are sure to delight both young and old.

The idea for this famous story came to du Maurier one day when she was walking across to Menabilly Barton farm from the house. She saw a farmer busily ploughing a field whilst above him the seagulls were diving and wheeling. She developed an idea about the birds becoming hostile and attacking him. In her story, the birds become hostile after a harsh winter with little food -- f...(展开全部)

How long he fought with them in the darkness he could not tell, but at last the beating of the wings about him lessened and then withdrew...<br /><br />A classic of alienation and horror, The Birds was immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film. The five other chilling stories in this collection echo a sense of dislocation and mock man's sense of dominance over the natura...(展开全部)

达芙妮·杜穆里埃，英国当代极具影响力的殿堂级女作家，英国皇家文学会会员，曾获爱伦·坡终身大师奖、美国国家图书奖和安东尼世纪图书奖，其作品在大英图书馆被借阅次数超过莎士比亚。 杜穆里埃一生共创作了17部长篇小说以及几十种其他体裁的文学作品，尤其擅长描写爱情的诡异之处，代表作有《蝴蝶梦》《浮生梦》《牙买加旅馆》等。她的小说气氛神秘，悬念迭生。“悬疑电影圣手”希区柯克曾三度改编其作品。本书收录了杜穆里埃创作生涯中后期的6篇短篇悬疑佳作，延续其一贯的写作风格一哥特式惊悚悬疑色彩与浪漫主义元素的结合，故事情节丝丝入扣，带给读者绝无仅有的阅读体验。

This collection features one of Maugham's most famous tales, "Rain," concerning the clash between a missionary and a prostitute. It also includes "Macintosh," a psychological study of the competition between two officials; "The Fall of Edward Barnard," a tale of social rebellion that foreshadows "The Razor's Edge"; "The Pool," and other compelling stories of life in the tropics...(展开全部)

The superbly crafted stories collected in Alistair MacLeod’s As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories depict men and women acting out their “own peculiar mortality” against the haunting landscape of Cape Breton Island. In a voice at once elegiac and life-affirming, MacLeod describes a vital present inhabited by the unquiet spirits of a Highland past, invoking memory and...(展开全部)

I have deliberated a long time about coupling some of my sketches of outdoor nature with a few chapters of a more purely literary character, and thus confiding to my reader what absorbs and delights me inside my four walls, as well as what pleases and engages me outside those walls; especially since I have aimed to bring my outdoor spirit and method within, and still to look up...(展开全部)

I have deliberated a long time about coupling some of my sketches of outdoor nature with a few chapters of a more purely literary character, and thus confiding to my reader what absorbs and delights me inside my four walls, as well as what pleases and engages me outside those walls; especially since I have aimed to bring my outdoor spirit and method within, and still to look up...(展开全部)