A brilliant new history that dramatically reassesses how far the Viking world extended. Dr Cat Jarman exposes the unexpected routes that Viking travel and trade took - and how these kings of the river were frequent travellers of the Middle East and the Silk Road. One June day late in the eighth century, Norse seafarers arrived at the English island of Lindisfarne. They waged a ...(展开全部)

To those who know the charm of Aldo Leopold's writing in A Sand County Almanac, this collection from his journals and essays will be a new delight. The journal entries included here were written in camp during his many field trips--hunting, fishing, and exploring--and they indicate the source of ideas on land ethics found in his longer essays. They reflect as well two long ca...(展开全部)

A River is the story of young girl imagining herself floating along a river as she gazes out of her window. Filled with vibrant colors and richly textured landscapes, A River is a journey through cityscapes, farmland, forest, jungle, and oceans. Where else will the river take her?

马克·马丁生活在澳大利亚墨尔本，是一名插画师，艺术家，图书作者。他的作品广受欢迎，与很多品牌，杂志和媒体都有合作。他喜欢带着画具出门，在社交媒体上分享他所见的风景，精美的自然画风为他赢得了12万粉丝。 他2012年开始创作图画书，曾获得澳大利亚克莱顿童书奖、澳大利亚图书设计奖。 《我家窗外有条河》是他的第四本书，荣获2017年《纽约时报》年度十佳童书。

远藤周作（Endo Shusaku，1923-1996） 日本著名作家，日本信仰文学的先驱，作品中渗透着关于生命、人生、社会、文化、历史的浓厚思考和沉重追问，在日本现当代文学史上有着承前启后的枢纽地位，代表了日本20世纪文学的最高水平。 出生于东京一个天主教家庭，10岁时接受洗礼，深受天主教思想的影响。1954年，处女作《到雅典》初试啼声，正式登上日本文坛；次年，短篇小说《白人》荣获芥川文学奖；1958年，长篇小说《海和毒药》荣获新潮文学奖和每日出版文化奖；1966年，代表作家创作高峰的巨著《沉默》出版，掀起巨大反响……1993年，作家最后的巨作《深河》隆重出版，迅速被翻译成13种语言译介到亚洲与欧美，引起专家、读者和媒体的如潮好评，被誉为“代表日本20世纪文学高峰”。1995年，因一生巨大的文化影响被授予日本文化勋章，次年病逝于东京。临终之前特嘱亲...(展开全部)

Hundreds of years after civilisation has been destroyed by nuclear war, the Earth is divided between the Trackers of the Amtrak Federation – a community living in vast subterranean cities – and the Mutes, who have evolved to withstand the radiation that has driven their foes underground. A long war for possession of the overground has killed and enslaved many of the Mutes, leav...(展开全部)

Hundreds of years after civilisation has been destroyed by nuclear war, the Earth is divided between the Trackers of the Amtrak Federation – a community living in vast subterranean cities – and the Mutes, who have evolved to withstand the radiation that has driven their foes underground. A long war for possession of the overground has killed and enslaved many of the Mutes, leav...(展开全部)

菲利帕·格里高利是一位全职作者及电台、电视台主持人，拥有爱丁堡大学十八世纪文学研究博士学位，尤其偏爱创作以都铎王朝及16世纪英国为背景的小说，被称作“历史小说女王”。作品《另一个波琳家的女孩》发行全球26个国家，仅在英国就发行量破百万。后被好莱坞搬上银幕。《玫瑰战争》系列也将由BBC改编为电视剧，预计在2013年8月上映。菲利帕·格里高利的历史小说系列仍在不断更新中，每有新作面世便长期占据美英各大畅销书榜单前位，受到读者广泛好评。

After a brutal battle with the underworld that nearly destroyed him, Locke and his trusted sidekick, Jean, fled the island city of their birth and landed on the exotic shores of Tal Verrar to nurse their wounds. But even at this westernmost edge of civilization, they can't rest for long — and are soon back to what they do best: stealing from the undeserving rich and pocketing th...(展开全部)

In his highly acclaimed debut, The Lies of Locke Lamora , Scott Lynch took us on an adrenaline-fueled adventure with a band of daring thieves led by con artist extraordinaire Locke Lamora. Now Lynch brings back his outrageous hero for a caper so death-defying, nothing short of a miracle will pull it off. After a brutal battle with the underworld that nearly destroyed him,...(展开全部)