Every January 1, a quirky crowd storms out across North America for a spectacularly competitive event called a Big Year -- a grand, expensive, and occasionally vicious 365-day marathon of birdwatching. For three men in particular, 1998 would become a grueling battle for a new North American birding record. Bouncing from coast to coast on frenetic pilgrimages for once-in-a-lifet...(展开全部)

Follows the 1998 Big Year competition between Sandy Komito, Al Levantin, and Greg Miller during which the three rivals risked their lives to set a new North American birding record, an event that took them to such locales as Del Rio in search of the rufous-capped warbler and British Columbia in pursuit of the Xantus' hummingbird. 75,000 first printing.

The Nature and Destiny of Man issues a vigorous challenge to Western civilization to understand its roots in the faith of the Bible, particularly the Hebraic tradition. The growth, corruption, and purification of the important Western emphases on individuality are insightfully chronicled here. This book is arguably Reinhold Niebuhr's most important work. It offers a sustained a...(展开全部)

Delicious, lethal, hallucinogenic and medicinal, fruits have led nations to war, fueled dictatorships and lured people into new worlds. An expedition through the fascinating world of fruit, The Fruit Hunters is the engrossing story of some of Earth's most desired foods. In lustrous prose, Adam Leith Gollner draws readers into a Willy Wonka-like world with mangoes that taste ...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Journalist Gollner's debut is a rollicking account of the world of fruit and fruit fanatics. He's traveled to many countries in search of exotic fruits, and he describes in sensuous detail some of the hundreds of varieties he's sampled, among them peanut butter fruit, blackberry-jam fruit and coco-de-mer—a suggestively shaped coconut known...(展开全部)

亚当·李斯·格尔纳 http://www.adamgollner.com 现居加拿大蒙特利尔。耗费数年周游世界探访地下水果世界。他是《纽约时报》、《美食家》、《好胃口》、《GOOD》等杂志的撰稿人。曾经担任《VICE》杂志的编辑。他还是个音乐人，并筹拍自己的独立电影。《水果猎人》是他的第一本著作，并即将被搬上银幕，由著名导演文德斯监督，《沿江而上（Up the YangZi River）》华裔导演张侨勇导演。 本书网站： www.thefruithunters.com

Amazon Exclusive: John Grisham Reviews The Lost City of Z In April of 1925, a legendary British explorer named Percy Fawcett launched his final expedition into the depths of the Amazon in Brazil. His destination was the lost city of El Dorado, the “City of Gold,” an ancient kingdom of great sophistication, architecture, and culture that, for some reason, had vanished. The idea ...(展开全部)

A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the world. A quest for truth that leads to death, madness or disappearance for those who seek to solve it. The Lost City of Z is a blockbuster adventure narrative about what lies beneath the impenetrable jungle canopy of the Amazon. After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, ...(展开全部)

豪华的立体书，可以360度展开。春夏秋冬的美景立即神奇的呈现眼前，书中有着大自然的一年四季。

马克·博伊尔，爱尔兰人，31岁，经济学专业毕业，经营6年有机食品公司，标准的中产阶级。由于商学院出身，他对“借明天的钱今天花”等消费主义论调持警醒态度，认为金钱消灭了人与人之间的爱与信任。 他的另一个身份是英国“免费经济社区”的创立者，这个社区提倡物物交换，不花钱也能过上不错的生活。他建立的免费经济社区网站（justfortheloveofit.org），已经成为几万名会员的中心枢纽。他发起了“不花钱”运动，并以自己不花钱的经历名闻世界。 他是《卫报》《良知消费者》的固定投稿人，在英国很多媒体上有专栏，包括《天空新闻》、BBC第四电台、BBC第二电视台、《每日镜报》、《每日邮报》、《电讯报》、《泰晤士报》等。