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)

After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, acclaimed New Yorker writer David Grann set out to solve “the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century”: What happened to the British explorer Percy Fawcett and his quest for the Lost City of Z? In 1925, Fawcett ventured into the Amazon to find an ancient civilization, vowing to make one of the most important archae...(展开全部)

马特·里克特（Matt Richtel），《New York Times》记者，报道领域广泛，尤其擅长科技对人们生活的影响这一主题。2010年凭借对分心驾驶及其产生根源的系列报道，斩获普利策国内新闻报道奖（Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting），并由此推动了广泛改革。里克特毕业于加州大学伯克利分校和哥伦比亚大学新闻学院，他还是一名小说作家。

[英] 玛格丽特·米（Margaret Mee）著 英国植物艺术家、探险家，专注于亚马孙森林植物研究。她的作品深受世界各地的植物学家和艺术评论家的赞誉。 1909年5月22日，玛格丽特出生在英国中产之家，早期受过良好的文化、艺术和戏剧教育，战争时期帮助好友躲避纳粹， 后进入飞机制造工厂绘制图纸为国效力。1956年，47岁的她进入了巴西雨林，开始了长达32年的森林探险，为植物科学和环保事业奉献了自己的后半生。她曾先后15次深入亚马孙流域的勘探，记录和绘制那里的珍奇植物。由她发现和命名的植物，便有9种之多。1988年11月30日晚，她在莱斯特的交通意外中去世。在其后举办的追思会中，英国菲利普亲王及巴西政要均到场致哀。 她曾获得： 🏆 1971 · 古根海姆奖 🎖 1976 · 大英帝国员佐勋章 🎖 1979 · 巴西共和国南十字星勋章 🏅 1986 · ...(展开全部)

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.

What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion--imageability--and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuil...(展开全部)

What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion--imageability--and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuil...(展开全部)

Now in paperback—the internationally acclaimed novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.