唐·沃森（Don Watson）澳大利亚著名作家、历史学家和公共演讲家。长年为澳大利亚的传奇电视剧《男仆报告》撰写政治讽刺剧本，电影作品则包括《控告上帝的人》和《激情》。在过去三十年，他在政治、历史和文化方面的文章及评论屡屡见诸澳大利亚各报刊，出版的专著好评如潮、畅销不衰，包括《流血之心的回忆》《死刑》《沃森的遁词词典》《美国之旅》《灵活的学问》《丛林》《恶词》等。已两次荣膺《时代报》年度图书奖和独立书商年度图书奖，阿尔弗雷德.迪肯美文奖、澳大利亚文学研究学会年度图书奖、沃克利奖、新南威尔士州长文学奖、菲利普.霍金斯澳大利亚文学金奖等。曾长期担任澳大利亚总理的演讲撰稿人，并定期举办职业写作艺术工作坊。现与作家克罗伊.胡珀及两个孩子居住在墨尔本。

Stifled by the torpor of colonial South Africa, and trapped in a web of reciprocal oppression, a lonely sheep farmer seeks comfort in the arms of a black concubine. But when his embittered spinster daughter Magda feels shamed, this lurch across the racial divide marks the end of a tenuous feudal peace. As she dreams madly of bloody revenge, Magda's consciousnes sstarts to drift...(展开全部)

In the Heart of the Sea brings to new life the incredible story of the wreck of the whaleship Essex --an event as mythic in its own century as the Titanic disaster in ours, and the inspiration for the climax of Moby-Dick . In a harrowing page-turner, Nathaniel Philbrick restores this epic story to its rightful place in American history. In 1820, the 240-ton Essex set sail...(展开全部)

唐·沃森（Don Watson）澳大利亚著名作家、历史学家和公共演讲家。长年为澳大利亚的传奇电视剧《男仆报告》撰写政治讽刺剧本，电影作品则包括《控告上帝的人》和《激情》。在过去三十年，他在政治、历史和文化方面的文章及评论屡屡见诸澳大利亚各报刊，出版的专著好评如潮、畅销不衰，包括《流血之心的回忆》《死刑》《沃森的遁词词典》《美国之旅》《灵活的学问》《丛林》《恶词》等。已两次荣膺《时代报》年度图书奖和独立书商年度图书奖，阿尔弗雷德.迪肯美文奖、澳大利亚文学研究学会年度图书奖、沃克利奖、新南威尔士州长文学奖、菲利普.霍金斯澳大利亚文学金奖等。曾长期担任澳大利亚总理的演讲撰稿人，并定期举办职业写作艺术工作坊。现与作家克罗伊.胡珀及两个孩子居住在墨尔本。

Between 1990 and 1994, Colm Toibin made a series of trips through Catholic Europe, and then set down his impressions in this beautifully written book. His journey led him into close contact with people from all walks of life, from priests to politicians, from the intellectually open to the spiritually bigoted. Filled with personal detail set within its historical context, this ...(展开全部)

Colm Tóibín is one of Ireland's most distinguished young writers; he is also a lapsed Catholic. Yet over a succession of Holy Weeks, Toibin found himself traveling to places where Catholicism still possesses mystery and power, from Poland to Lithuania, from Lourdes to Santiago, and from Croatia to Ireland. And in seeing how the faith persisted in other people's lives, he discov...(展开全部)

Between 1990 and 1994, Colm Toibin made a series of trips through Catholic Europe, and then set down his impressions in this beautifully written book. His journey led him into close contact with people from all walks of life, from priests to politicians, from the intellectually open to the spiritually bigoted. Filled with personal detail set within its historical context, this ...(展开全部)

Colm Tóibín is one of Ireland's most distinguished young writers; he is also a lapsed Catholic. Yet over a succession of Holy Weeks, Toibin found himself traveling to places where Catholicism still possesses mystery and power, from Poland to Lithuania, from Lourdes to Santiago, and from Croatia to Ireland. And in seeing how the faith persisted in other people's lives, he discov...(展开全部)

The ordeal of the whaleship Essex was an event as mythic in the nineteenth century as the sinking of the Titanic was in the twentieth. In 1819, the Essex left Nantucket for the South Pacific with twenty crew members aboard. In the middle of the South Pacific the ship was rammed and sunk by an angry sperm whale. The crew drifted for more than ninety days in three tiny whaleb...(展开全部)

The ordeal of the whaleship Essex was an event as mythic in the nineteenth century as the sinking of the Titanic was in the twentieth. In 1819, the Essex left Nantucket for the South Pacific with twenty crew members aboard. In the middle of the South Pacific the ship was rammed and sunk by an angry sperm whale. The crew drifted for more than ninety days in three tiny whaleb...(展开全部)