This is the story of Dr Alfred Jones, a fisheries scientist - for whom diary-notable events include the acquisition of a new electric toothbrush and getting his article on caddis fly larvae published in 'Trout and Salmon' - who finds himself reluctantly involved in a project to bring salmon fishing to the Highlands of the Yemen - a project that will change his life, and the cou...(展开全部)

This is the story of Dr Alfred Jones, a fisheries scientist - for whom diary -notable events include the acquisition of a new electric toothbrush and getting his article on caddis fly larvae published in 'Trout and Salmon' - who finds himself reluctantly involved in a project to bring salmon fishing to the Highlands of the Yemen - a project that will change his life, and the co...(展开全部)

DEBUT FICTION UK BESTSELLERWhat does it take to make us believe in the impossible? For Dr. Alfred Jones, life is a quiet mixture of civil service at the National Centre for Fisheries Excellence and marriage to Mary--an ambitious, no-nonsense financier. But a strange turn of fate from an unexpected direction forces Jones to upend his existence and spend all of his time in pursu...(展开全部)

Richard Brautigan was a literary idol of the 1960s and 1970s whose comic genius and iconoclastic vision of American life caught the imagination of young people everywhere. He came of age during the Haight-Ashbury period and has been called "the last of the Beats." His early books became required reading for the hip generation, and on its publication Trout Fishing in America bec...(展开全部)

A novel which is both playful and serious, hilarious and melancholy. It takes a journey which starts at the foot of the Benjamin Franklin statue in Washington Square, San Francisco, and wanders through the wonders of America's rural waterways.

▼作者简介 理查德•布劳提根 Richard Gary Brautigan 美国诗人、小说家、后垮掉派代表作家。他的作品中大量充斥着戏仿、讽喻与黑色幽默，小说代表作为《在美国钓鳟鱼》（1967）与《在西瓜糖中》（1968），诗歌代表作为《搁大理石茶》（1959）《避孕药与春山矿难》（1968）。他最初以诗歌创作登上文坛，第一本诗集出版于1957年，其后曾参加过“垮掉派”的活动，其后凭借着《在美国钓鳟鱼》的出版名声大噪，嬉皮士一度奉他为偶像，将其视为“爱之夏”运动的代言人。1984年，布劳提根于加州家中自杀身亡。 ▼译者简介 ☆ 陈汐 1992年生于浙江建德，先后就读于复旦大学翻译系、香港中文大学翻译系，主编并出版有诗文集《在复旦写诗》。 ☆ 肖水 1980 年生于湖南郴州，先后就读于复旦大学法学院、中文系，出版诗集《失物认领》《中文课》《艾草：新绝句...(展开全部)

Originally published by John Murray this is an account of Smith's time in Yemen, which started as a sabbatical year in 1982 and grew into fifteen years. Smith travelled the mountains, the desert and the sea and brings the country, the people and three millennia of history to life. scholarly and entertaining... Mackintosh Smith succeeds admirably in shining a light on an obscure...(展开全部)

提姆．麥金塔-史密斯　Tim Macintosh-Smith 出生於1961年，在牛津大學攻讀阿拉伯語，並曾在地中海東部一帶短期擔任過風琴手。 由於年幼時受到葉門影像的吸引，因而於1982年移居到葉門首都薩那一處頂樓居住，當地人稱他為「拿撒勒先生」(基督教徒)。其足跡遍及葉門各地，對於阿拉伯文化及習俗具有極深刻的了解與研究。此書一出版即榮獲1998年的「湯瑪士．庫克」旅行文學獎，以及「每日電訊報」旅行文學獎。 繪者簡介 馬丁．尤曼(Martin Yeoman) 為插畫家、素描家、雕刻家，其作品廣為英國重要收藏家索收藏，包括女王陛下(HM the Queen)及威爾斯王子。

布莱恩•费根（Brian Fagan）  《纽约时报》畅销书作家  美国考古学学会“公共教育奖”“主席引文奖”  专业考古学家学会“杰出服务奖”  国家地理学会、《时代/生活》《大英百科全书》《微软电子百科全书》考古顾问 世界知名考古学家，加州大学圣巴巴拉分校荣誉退休教授。著有畅销书《大暖化》《小冰河时代》《世界史前史》《地球人：世界史前史导论》等50多本著作，其中包括8本考古学专业大学教科书。

Humanity’s last major source of food from the wild, and how it enabled and shaped the growth of civilization In this history of fishing—not as sport but as sustenance—archaeologist and best-selling author Brian Fagan argues that fishing was an indispensable and often overlooked element in the growth of civilization. It sustainably provided enough food to allow cities, nations, ...(展开全部)