The collaboration of two friends-one a novelist, one a novelist, one a marine biologist-produced a volume in which fascinating popular science is woven into a narrative of man's dreams, his ideals, and his accomplishments through the centuries. Sea of Cortez is one of those rare books that are all things to all readers. Actually the record of a brief collecting expedition in ...(展开全部)

In 1940 Steinbeck sailed in a sardine boat with his great friend the marine biologist, Ed Ricketts, to collect marine invertebrates from the beaches of the Gulf of California. The expedition was described by the two men in "Sea Of Cortez", published in 1941. The day-to-day story of the trip is told here in the Log, which combines science, philosophy and high-spirited adventure....(展开全部)

Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America’s greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year, his many works published as black-spine Penguin Classics for the first time and will feature eye-catching, newly commissioned art. Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation of read...(展开全部)

史坦貝克 美國作家，曾獲得1962年諾貝爾文學獎。作品多描寫大蕭條時期的平民階級及移民工人的生活，他的作品裡經常出現在生活中掙扎的人物，被認為是受了自然主義文學的影響。他的故事和人物都是來自20世紀上半葉時真正存在的歷史環境和事件。他的小說反映了他廣泛的興趣，比如海洋生物學，爵士樂，政治，哲學，歷史和神話。其主要小說代表作有《人鼠之間》（1937）、《憤怒的葡萄》（1939）、《罐頭廠街》（1945）以及《伊甸園東》（1952）等。另著有非虛構作品《史坦貝克俄羅斯紀行》（1948）、《查理與我》（1962）等。 立克茨 海洋生物學家，成立「太平洋生物實驗室」（Pacific Biological Laboratories, Inc.），經常為美國多所大專院校及頗具規模的研究機構提供海洋動物標本，對美國西岸潮間帶生態研究有著重大貢獻。在1930到194...(展开全部)

法利•莫厄特，加拿大自然文学作家，坚定的环保主义者。一生出版著作44本，有2500多万册远销世界60多个国家。其代表作有《鲸之殇》《与狼共度》《鹿之民》《屠海》等。他透过极具热情和洞察力的写作启发世人，不同的选择对人类和生态会有重大影响：曾经的选择影响当下的生态系统，现在的抉择将左右人类和所有地球生命的未来。

法利•莫厄特，加拿大自然文学作家，坚定的环保主义者。一生出版著作44本，有2500多万册远销世界60多个国家。其代表作有《鲸之殇》《与狼共度》《鹿之民》《屠海》等。他透过极具热情和洞察力的写作启发世人，不同的选择对人类和生态会有重大影响：曾经的选择影响当下的生态系统，现在的抉择将左右人类和所有地球生命的未来。

At the heart of this epic saga, set just before the Opium Wars, is an old slaving-ship, The Ibis. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean, its crew a motley array of sailors and stowaways, coolies and convicts. In a time of colonial upheaval, fate has thrown together a truly diverse cast of Indians and Westerners, from a bankrupt Raja to a widowed villager, f...(展开全部)

法利•莫厄特，加拿大自然文学作家，坚定的环保主义者。一生出版著作44本，有2500多万册远销世界60多个国家。其代表作有《鲸之殇》《与狼共度》《鹿之民》《屠海》等。他透过极具热情和洞察力的写作启发世人，不同的选择对人类和生态会有重大影响：曾经的选择影响当下的生态系统，现在的抉择将左右人类和所有地球生命的未来。

法利•莫厄特，加拿大自然文学作家，坚定的环保主义者。一生出版著作44本，有2500多万册远销世界60多个国家。其代表作有《鲸之殇》《与狼共度》《鹿之民》《屠海》等。他透过极具热情和洞察力的写作启发世人，不同的选择对人类和生态会有重大影响：曾经的选择影响当下的生态系统，现在的抉择将左右人类和所有地球生命的未来。

In 1912, eighteen-year-old Edwin St. Andrew crosses the Atlantic, exiled from English polite society. In British Columbia, he enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and for a split second all is darkness, the notes of a violin echoing unnaturally through the air. The experience shocks him to his core. Two centuries later Olive Llewelyn, a famous...(展开全部)