珍妮·迪斯基，毕业于伦敦大学，她的文章及作品定期刊载于《观察家报》及《伦敦书评》等报刊上，是个创作活跃的作家。《火车怪客环游美国》曾获得托马斯•库克旅行文学奖及J．R．阿克雷自传奖。 胡洲贤，台湾成功大学外国语文学系毕业，曾赴美国加州进修翻译。现专职翻译及创作。有《撒哈 拉》《背着冰箱去旅行》等多部译著。

In spite of the fact that her idea of travel is to stay home with the phone off the hook, Jenny Diski takes a trip around the perimeter of the USA by train. Somewhat reluctantly she meets all kinds of characters, all bursting with stories to tell and finds herself brooding about the marvellously familiar landscape of America, half-known already through film and television. Like...(展开全部)

Everything you need to know about finding, keeping, and training your very own pet train. Finding advice on caring for a dog, a cat, a fish, even a dinosaur is easy. But what if somebody’s taste in pets runs to the more mechanical kind? What about those who like cogs and gears more than feathers and fur? People who prefer the call of a train whistle to the squeal of a guinea ...(展开全部)

Denis Johnson's "Train Dreams" is an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fictions. Robert Grainer is a day laborer in the American West at the start of the twentieth century--an ordinary man in extraordinary times. Buffeted by the loss of his family, Grainer struggles to make sense of this strange new world. As his story unfolds, we witness both his shock...(展开全部)

At fifteen, Terry Flynn had the face of an angel and the body of a perfect athlete...Set in a small boarding school on the eve of America's entry into World War Two, "A Good School" tells the story of William Grove, the nervous teenager trying to fit in; the betrayed alcoholic, Jack Draper; and, Edith Stone, the teacher's daughter, who falls in love with the most popular boy in...(展开全部)

At fifteen, Terry Flynn had the face of an angel and the body of a perfect athlete...Set in a small boarding school on the eve of America's entry into World War Two, "A Good School" tells the story of William Grove, the nervous teenager trying to fit in; the betrayed alcoholic, Jack Draper; and, Edith Stone, the teacher's daughter, who falls in love with the most popular boy in...(展开全部)

《On Drawing Trees and Nature》（《描绘树木与自然》）是英国19世纪风景画家J. D. Harding于1846年首次出版的绘画教材。本版本书末还附有同作者于1855年出版的《Lessons on Trees》（《树木绘画课》）中的23张整页插图。

珍妮．迪斯基 從倫敦大學畢業之後，在1970到1980年代初期曾經以教職為生。而今她的文章及作品定期刊載於《觀察家報》及《倫敦書評》等報刊上，是個創作活躍的作家。她最愛昆汀‧塔倫蒂諾的電影，為他戲中的全然虛無心儀不已。而她最敬佩的則是俄國流亡作家納博科夫，他作品中顯露出的冷靜和疏離，令珍妮．迪斯基折服萬分。目前她獨自與多隻愛貓定居於劍橋。 她以脫俗客觀、機敏伶俐的文筆著稱，著有八本小說：《雨林》（Rainforest）、《彷如其母》（Like Mother）、《然而》（Then Again）、《從此幸福快樂》（Happily Ever After）、《猴舅》（Monkey’s Uncle）、《夢幻情婦》（The Dream Mistress），以及最近出版的《唯有人類》（Only Human）和《無事自然》（Nothing Natural）；短篇小說...(展开全部)