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)

A "San Francisco Chronicle" Best Book of 2008A "Chicago"" Tribune" Best Book of 2008A "Washington"" Post" Best Book of 2008An "Economist" Best Book of 2008A "New York" Best Book of 2008A "Christian Science Monitor" Best Book of 2008A "Publishers Weekly "Best Book of 2008Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize At the heart of this vibrant saga is a vast ship, the "Ibis," Its destin...(展开全部)

At the heart of this vibrant saga is a vast ship, the Ibis. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean; its purpose, to fight China's vicious nineteenth-century Opium Wars. As for the crew, they are a motley array of sailors and stowaways, coolies and convicts. In a time of colonial upheaval, fate has thrown together a diverse cast of Indians and Westerners, fro...(展开全部)

阿来，一九五九年生于四川北部阿坝藏区。履历表上列为籍贯的马尔康县俗称“四土”，即四个土司统辖之地。 八十年代中期开始创作。出版过小说集《旧年的血迹》与诗集《梭磨河》。《尘埃落定》是其第一部长篇 小说。

阿来，一九五九年生于四川北部阿坝藏区。履历表上列为籍贯的马尔康县俗称“四土”，即四个土司统辖之地。 八十年代中期开始创作。出版过小说集《旧年的血迹》与诗集《梭磨河》。《尘埃落定》是其第一部长篇 小说。

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)

Paul Russell's delicately layered, richly textured novels have won him widespread acclaim as one of the finest contemporary American novelists. "Sea of Tranquillity," possibly his most ambitious and rewarding novel, traces a disintegrating nuclear family across two tumultuous decades of American life - from the early '60s to the '80s - and is told in a quartet of voices: astron...(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。