Lawrence Craft has been walking the lonely path of the itinerant merchant for seven years. His life changes forever when he meets Horo, the Wolf-God of the harvest, and the two begin travelling together.

After turning a healthy profit following his adventures in Pasloe, Kraft Lawrence is eager to reinvest his capital with an eye to the future. When the deal turns sour, though, Lawrence finds himself deeply in debt and facing a very bleak future indeed. Luckily, Holo is at his side with a risky (and less than legal) scheme that may just save the merchant's neck and a promise tha...(展开全部)

Having narrowly escaped financial ruin, Lawrence turns his attention to helping Holo find her ancient homeland in the North. But how long can a traveling merchant afford to wander the countryside looking for a village that he suspects may have ceased to exist long ago? When a rival merchant sets his sights on Lawrence's beautiful companion, though, can Lawrence truly be confide...(展开全部)

Gary Paul Nabhan takes the reader on a vivid and far-ranging journey across time and space in this fascinating look at the relationship between the spice trade and culinary imperialism. Drawing on his own family’s history as spice traders, as well as travel narratives, historical accounts, and his expertise as an ethnobotanist, Nabhan describes the critical roles that Semitic p...(展开全部)

In the final volume of the bestselling Peapod Farm series, a city kid turned country girl whose life has been changing nonstop is settling into her new place in the family—only for unexpected drama to strike between sisters. “Understated and full of heart.”—Kirkus Reviews Jen couldn't be more excited to spend time on Peapod Farm with her stepsisters, Andy and Reese. For months,...(展开全部)

iDEATH is a place where the sun shines a different colour every day and where people travel to the length of their dreams. Rejecting the violence and hate of the old gang at the Forgotten Works, they lead gentle lives in watermelon sugar. In this book, Richard Brautigan discovers and expresses the mood of the counterculture generation.

理查德•布劳提根（Richard Brautigan，1935—1984），1935年1月生于华盛顿州塔科马市，幼年随生母和继父辗转多地，1944年定居俄勒冈州尤金市。高中毕业后因向警察局窗户投掷石块被捕，后被确诊为偏执型精神分裂和抑郁症入院治疗。1956年出院后前往旧金山，并在那里度过一生大部分时间，1984年在旧金山家中自杀身亡。他最初以写诗步入文坛，曾先后出版诗集《搭顺风车的加利利人》《摆上大理石的茶》《避孕药与春山矿难》等。20世纪六十年代，随着其三部小说《从大苏尔来的邦联将军》（1964）、《在美国钓鳟鱼》（1967）、《在西瓜糖里》（1968）的相继出版，布劳提根的文学事业迎来高峰期，他由此成为美国20世纪六七十年代的文学偶像，并在世界范围内获得巨大声誉。 译者简介：王伟庆（笔名少况），毕业于北京外国语大学。上世纪九十年代翻译出版了唐纳德...(展开全部)

In this wide-ranging study, Sucheta Mazumdar offers a new answer to the fundamental question of why China, universally acknowledged as one of the most developed economies in the world through the mid-eighteenth century, paused in this development process in the nineteenth. Focusing on cane-sugar production, domestic and international trade, technology, and the history of consum...(展开全部)

A fascinating persuasive history of how sugar has shaped the world, from European colonies to our modern diets. In this eye-opening study, Sidney Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life, and how it changed the history of capitalism and industry. He discusses the production and consumption of ...(展开全部)