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)

Jules Verne was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.Verne is generally considered a major literary author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. The Mysterious Island is considered by many to be Jules Verne's masterpiece. This captivating tale of adventure, "The Mysterious Island" tells the tale of five men and a dog who land in a balloon on a faraway,Through the use of their ingenuity the five manage to survive on this island wilderness. Many secrets and adventures await the group as they endeavor to discovery the mystery of this "mysterious island".

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)

One of the late Shusaku Endo's finest works, The Samurai tells of the journey of some of the first Japanese to set foot on European soil and the resulting clash of cultures and politics.

One of the late Shusaku Endo's finest works, The Samurai tells of the journey of some of the first Japanese to set foot on European soil and the resulting clash of cultures and politics.

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》。