作者簡介 查理‧英格利許（Charlie English） 英國皇家地理學會研究員、《衛報》前國際新聞組組長。十九歲時首次前往非洲旅遊，做了既深而廣的探索，之後遊歷世界各國，經驗豐富。文章常見於各大報。 為了撰寫廷巴克圖的故事，他在得知手抄本並未被毀的消息後，辭去了《衛報》的工作。 譯者簡介 蔡耀緯 臺灣大學歷史學研究所碩士，現為自由譯者。譯有《1921穿越福爾摩沙：一位英國作家的臺灣旅行》、《平凡的美德：分歧世界的道德秩序》、《大歷史：從宇宙大霹靂到今天的人類世界》（合譯）、《臺灣邊疆的治理與政治經濟（1600-1800）》（合譯）、《恐怖的總合》（合譯）等。

约书亚·哈默（Joshua Hammer），美国知名记者。1988年加入《新闻周刊》，先后在五大洲不同城市担任该杂志的分社社长，并长期为《GQ》《纽约客》《纽约时报》《国家地理》《大西洋月刊》等媒体撰稿，曾获包括美国国家杂志奖在内的多项新闻业大奖。从20世纪90年代起，哈默就开始 关注马里战乱，多次前往廷巴克图、巴马科等地采访，被誉为“对马里恐怖主义报道最深入的记者”。

To save precious centuries-old Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians in Timbuktu pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean’s Eleven. In the 1980s, a young adventurer and collector for a government library, Abdel Kader Haidara, journeyed across the Sahara Desert and along the Niger River, tracking down and salvaging tens of thousands of ancient Islamic and secular manu...(展开全部)

Christine de Pizan was born in 1365 in Venice. Her family moved to Paris three years later when her father was appointed court astrologer to King Charles V. Close ties to the royal court and her father's encouragement enabled Christine to obtain a good education, unusual for women of her time. At the age of fifteen, she married a court notary, who also fostered her learning and...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 A new translation of one of medieval Europe's most remarkable feminist texts. In The Book of the City of Ladies France's first professional woman of letters confronted head-on the misogyny of fourteenth-century Europe. Here, with the help of Reason, Rectitude, and Justice, Christine de Pizan constructs an allegorical city in which to defend womankind, using exampl...(展开全部)

'Remarkable. If only every endangered species had a guardian angel as impassioned, courageous and pragmatic as Jonathan Slaght' Isabella Tree, author of Wilding 'Gripping' Dave Goulson, author of A Sting in the Tale Primorye, a remote forested region near to where Russia, China and North Korea meet in a tangle of barbed wire, is the only place where brown bears, tigers and leop...(展开全部)

New York Times bestselling author China Miéville delivers his most accomplished novel yet, an existential thriller set in a city unlike any other-real or imagined. When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlu of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he investigates, the evidence points ...(展开全部)

New York Times bestselling author China Miéville delivers his most accomplished novel yet, an existential thriller set in a city unlike any other-real or imagined. When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlu of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he investigates, the evidence points ...(展开全部)

This book shatters the greatest secret of the last 3000 years. It is a quest for the "Lost Ark of the Convenant".

The fact of the Lost Ark of the Covenant is one of the grant historical mysteries of all time. To believers, the Ark is the legendary vesel holding the stone tablets of the Ten Commandments. The Bible contains hundreds of references to the Ark's power to level mountains, destroy armies, and lay waste to cities. The Ark itself, however, mysteriously disappears from recorded hist...(展开全部)