亨利•尼科尔斯（Henry Nicholls），作家、广播节目主持人，在演化生物学、环境保护及科学史方面颇有研究。长期为《自然》（Nature）、《新科学家》（New Scientist）、《BBC野生生物》（BBC Wildlife)等知名刊物撰稿。著有《熊猫之路》（The Way of Panda)等书。他的头一本书《孤独的乔治》（Lonesome George)就讲述了加拉帕戈斯群岛及全球性保护的故事。从2008年开始，尼克尔斯成为加拉帕戈斯保护基金会半年刊《加拉帕戈斯记事》（Galapagos Matters)的编辑。2002年至2009年，尼克尔斯还任职科学史季刊《奋进》（Endeavour)总编。目前，他已成为《奋进》的编委会成员。 林强，毕业于中山大学生命科学学院和中科院南海海洋所，海洋生物学硕士，现为学术期刊编辑。笔名“任天”，业余爱...(展开全部)

The Galapagos were once known to the sailors and pirates who encountered them as Las Encantadas: the enchanted islands, home to marvellous creatures and dramatic volcanic scenery. This captivating history of the world's most famous islands charts their evolution from deserted wilderness to profoundly important scientific resource and now global tourist destination. The Galapago...(展开全部)

Charles Darwin first visited the Galapagos Islands almost 200 years ago, only to discover a land filled with plants and animals that could not be found anywhere else on earth. How did they come to inhabit the islands? How long will they remain? Thoroughly researched and filled with intricate and beautiful paintings, this video adaptation of the extraordinary book by acclaimed a...(展开全部)

Galápagos takes the reader back one million years, to A.D. 1986. A simple vacation cruise suddenly becomes an evolutionary journey. Thanks to an apocalypse, a small group of survivors stranded on the Galápagos Islands are about to become the progenitors of a brave, new, and totally different human race. In this inimitable novel, America’s master satirist looks at our world and...(展开全部)

きっ和、それらはぜんぶここにあるべきも的たち。完璧なバランス、そしてすぐにこわされるも的。

“The world that I long to inhabit is the one that Charlie Mackesy has created – a world of infinite kindness, wisdom, mutual care and tenderness, and true love between real friends. My prayer/hope is that our world will become more like this one.” (Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Big Magic)

A book for all ages, a book for all time. Adapted into a short animated film, coming this Christmas. Enter the world of Charlie's four unlikely friends, discover their story and their most important life lessons. The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse have been shared millions of times online. They've also been recreated by children in schools and hung on hospital walls. They...(展开全部)

With Peter Jackson's Acadamy Award-winning epic motion picture trilogy drawing to a spectacular and triumphant close, Gary Russell's detailed research takes us back into the world of Middle-earth, to relive all the visual drama and excitement of The Return of the King. The Art of The Return of the King illustrates the creative development of the film from sketch to special eff...(展开全部)