Veteran explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s excruciating and inspiring expedition to Antarctica aboard the Endurance has long captured the public imagination. South is his own first-hand account of this epic adventure. As war clouds darkened over Europe in 1914, a party led by Shackleton set out to make the first crossing of the entire Antarctic continent via the Pole. But...(展开全部)

[挪威]托尔·海尔达尔THOR HEYERDAHL 二十世纪最杰出的挪威民族学家、探险家、作家。被誉为“世界上最著名的挪威人”。1947年，他策划组织并亲自参与的木筏横渡太平洋探险获得成功，震惊全球。 1948，记录这段传奇经历的书籍《孤筏重洋》出版，之后的70年中被翻译成75种语言，卖出了至少3500万册。这本书是有史以来由挪威作家写的最畅销的书之一。 海尔达尔乘坐木筏在海上航行时用摄像机记录了自己的冒险经历，并且制作成纪录片《康-提基》，获得了1951年奥斯卡最佳纪录片奖，这也是挪威历史上唯一一次获得奥斯卡奖的影片。2012年这段经历被拍摄成电影《孤筏重洋》，成为挪威最卖座的影片，并提名奥斯卡最佳外语片。1969年至1970年间，海尔达尔从摩洛哥启程，开始另一趟大规模航行，这次他驾驶纸草船「拉号」(Ra)，打算证实地中海世界的早期人类可能曾经横越...(展开全部)

When his grandfather dies, a boy named Jay travels south with his family to the property he left them, a once flourishing farm that has fallen into disrepair. The trees are diseased, the fields parched from months of drought. Still, Jay’s father, Jack, sends him out to work the land, or whatever land is left. Over the course of these hot, dense days, Jay finds himself drawn to ...(展开全部)

Long-listed for the Booker Prize Named one of The New York Times’s Notable Books of the Year One of The Washington Post’s Best Fiction Books of the Year A radiant, intimate novel of the longing that blooms between two boys over the course of one summer―about family, desire, and what we inherit. When his grandfather dies, Jay travels south with his family to the property they’ve...(展开全部)

Longlisted for the Booker Prize A radiant, intimate novel of the longing that blooms between two boys over the course of one summer―about family, desire, and what we inherit. When his grandfather dies, Jay travels south with his family to the property they’ve inherited, a once flourishing farm that has fallen into disrepair. The trees are diseased, the fields parched from month...(展开全部)

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker is one of the great comic novels of the 18th century, the outstanding masterpiece of Tobias Smollett (1721–71), a prolific journalist, historian, editor and translator, whose ground-breaking fictional creations helped shape the modern novel. Written in Italy during Smollett’s last illness, and published just months before his death from overwor...(展开全部)

In Passionate Work, Renyi Hong theorizes the notion of being “passionate about your work” as an affective project that encourages people to endure economically trying situations like unemployment, job change, repetitive and menial labor, and freelancing. Not simply a subject of aspiration, passion has been deployed as means to build resilience and mend disappointments with our ...(展开全部)

In Passionate Work, Renyi Hong theorizes the notion of being “passionate about your work” as an affective project that encourages people to endure economically trying situations like unemployment, job change, repetitive and menial labor, and freelancing. Not simply a subject of aspiration, passion has been deployed as means to build resilience and mend disappointments with our ...(展开全部)

A radiant, intimate novel of the longing that blooms between two boys over the course of one summer―about family, desire, and what we inherit. When his grandfather dies, Jay travels south with his family to the property they’ve inherited, a once flourishing farm that has fallen into disrepair. The trees are diseased, the fields parched from months of drought. Jay’s father, Jack...(展开全部)

The astonishing saga of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton's survival for over a year on the ice-bound Antarctic seas, as "Time" magazine put it, "defined heroism". Alfred Lansing's scrupulously researched and brilliantly narrated book--with over 200,000 copies sold--has long been acknowledged as the definitive account of the "Endurance's" fateful trip. of photos and maps. Nation...(展开全部)