Fascinating, paradoxical Cuba has a long and colorful history. Discovered by Columbus in 1492, the island was one of imperial Spain's first footholds in the New World and its last colony there. From the sack of Santiago by English freebooters in 1662 to Teddy Roosevelt's charge up San Juan Hill to Castro's revolution and the 1962 missile crisis, Cuba's turbulent past and diffic...(展开全部)

Fascinating, paradoxical Cuba has a long and colorful history. Discovered by Columbus in 1492, the island was one of imperial Spain's first footholds in the New World and its last colony there. From the sack of Santiago by English freebooters in 1662 to Teddy Roosevelt's charge up San Juan Hill to Castro's revolution and the 1962 missile crisis, Cuba's turbulent past and diffic...(展开全部)

Critically acclaimed author John Julius Norwich weaves the turbulent story of Sicily into a spellbinding narrative that places the island at the crossroads of world history. “Sicily,” said Goethe, “is the key to everything.” It is the largest island in the Mediterranean, the stepping-stone between Europe and Africa, the link between the Latin West and the Greek East. Sicily’s s...(展开全部)

Turtle Island won Gary Snyder the Pulitzer back in 1975, and remains, to this observer, his most completely realized work. The title comes from a Native American term for the continent of North America, and Snyder wants to reclaim the organic and holistic environmental harmony that once held sway here. Still, this is poetry, not diatribe. Snyder's key virtue isn't his political...(展开全部)

简介：The course of true love never did run smooth. - ShakespeareFor my loving family, thanks for their forgiveness and selfless devotion;In everlasting memory of my precious love Celia, she was the morning star in the depth of my soul.

作者&绘者：陈振盼，美籍华裔作家，2018年凯迪克奖得主，曾在雪城大学学习插画。他的图画书屡获大奖，其中《一座岛的600万年》获得了2013年的狮鹫奖，并被美国《学校图书馆杂志》《科克斯书评》共同评委2012年度最佳图书。他还创作了矢车菊奖入围作品《穿越寒武纪珊瑚礁》和亚马逊十大编辑精选童书《穿越侏罗纪原始森林》，以及同样出色的美国童书合作中心推荐图书《万有引力》。

阿道司·赫胥黎 Aldous Huxley (1894-1962)，赫胥黎出生于赫赫有名的赫胥黎家族。从小受到良好的教育，先后毕业于伊顿公学和牛津大学。他对人类生活中的矛盾具有超人的预见力。家学渊源和个人禀赋使得他在20世纪的欧美学术圈被认为是现代思想的领导者，位列当时杰 出的知识分子行列，曾多次获得诺贝尔文学奖提名。 赫胥黎一生创作了大量小说、诗歌、哲学著作和游记等，内容包罗万象，涉及现代文明各个重要方面。代表作有《美丽新世界》《岛》等。他晚年时对艺术、心理学、哲学，尤其是神秘主义颇感兴趣。

In his final novel, which he considered his most important, Aldous Huxley transports us to the remote Pacific island of Pala, where an ideal society has flourished for 120 years. Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala, and events are set in motion when an agent of the conspirators, a new...(展开全部)

For over a hundred years, the inhabitants of the Pacific island of Pala have been part of a social experiment whereby western science has been brought together with eastern philosophy and humanism to create a paradise on earth. In Island, Huxley gives us his vision of Utopia.

简介：The course of true love never did run smooth. - ShakespeareFor my loving family, thanks for their forgiveness and selfless devotion;In everlasting memory of my precious love Celia, she was the morning star in the depth of my soul.