A sequel to SHANTARAM but equally a standalone novel, The Mountain Shadow follows Lin on further adventures in shadowy worlds and cultures. It is a novel about seeking identity, love, meaning, purpose, home, even the secret of life...As the story begins, Lin has found happiness and love, but when he gets a call that a friend is in danger, he has no choice but to go to his aid, ...(展开全部)

A sequel to SHANTARAM but equally a standalone novel, The Mountain Shadow follows Lin on further adventures in shadowy worlds and cultures. It is a novel about seeking identity, love, meaning, purpose, home, even the secret of life...As the story begins, Lin has found happiness and love, but when he gets a call that a friend is in danger, he has no choice but to go to his aid, ...(展开全部)

格里高利•大卫•罗伯兹（Gregory David Roberts）：出生于澳大利亚墨尔本，他的“真实经历”比任何小说都更有传奇色彩，年轻有才气的大学教师因家庭破裂染上毒瘾，进而抢劫银行，成为“绅士大盗”。被捕后，二十四次的抢劫记录换来了十九年徒刑。越狱后逃亡印度孟买，这段长达八年的流亡岁月，便成了《项塔兰》1、2最真实的蓝本。 柳筠，原名刘勇军，外国文学领域资深译者。译作有《月亮与六便士》《日出酒店》《不安之书》《自决之书》《黑石之墓》等。 [编辑推荐] ❤精彩的故事。 本书主人公项塔兰的故事被读者戏称为“教父+肖申克的救赎+第一滴血”结合体！ ❤神奇的阅读体验：能一口气读完的大部头。 迭起的悬念，带感的节奏，呛人的真实，处处不经意的冷幽默，可以吸引你一路不停地读下去，根本意识不到这是一本将近千页的大部头。 ❤一本大书，深陷其中，男人的百科全书。 ...(展开全部)

The third book from the most gifted young travel writer at work today, author of the best-selling In Xanadu ('one of the best travel books produced in the last twenty years' -- Scotland on Sunday) and City of Djinns ('the best travel book I have ever read' -- George Mackay Brown). In the spring of 587 AD, two monks set off on an extraordinary journey that would take them in an...(展开全部)

The third book from the most gifted young travel writer at work today, author of the best-selling In Xanadu ('one of the best travel books produced in the last twenty years' -- Scotland on Sunday) and City of Djinns ('the best travel book I have ever read' -- George Mackay Brown). In the spring of 587 AD, two monks set off on an extraordinary journey that would take them in an ...(展开全部)

The third book from the most gifted young travel writer at work today, author of the best-selling In Xanadu ('one of the best travel books produced in the last twenty years' -- Scotland on Sunday) and City of Djinns ('the best travel book I have ever read' -- George Mackay Brown). In the spring of 587 AD, two monks set off on an extraordinary journey that would take them in an ...(展开全部)

The third book from the most gifted young travel writer at work today, author of the best-selling In Xanadu ('one of the best travel books produced in the last twenty years' -- Scotland on Sunday) and City of Djinns ('the best travel book I have ever read' -- George Mackay Brown). In the spring of 587 AD, two monks set off on an extraordinary journey that would take them in an...(展开全部)

Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland. There she encounters a world that can be breathtakingly beautiful at times and shockingly harsh at others. Her intense, poetic prose explores and records the rocks, rivers, creatures and hidden aspects of this remarkable landscape. Shepherd spent a lifetime in search of the "essential nature" of the C...(展开全部)

作者簡介 彼得‧Peter Boardman 彼得．博德曼出生於1950年聖誕節，其後成為英國最受敬重的高海拔登山家之一。他曾是凱恩戈姆國家公園格蘭莫爾山屋（Glenmore Lodge）的登山指導員，也是英國登山協會的全國事務官，之後被任命為瑞士萊辛（Leysin）國際登山學校總監。 他是1975年克里斯．鮑寧頓聖母峰遠征隊的一員，1976年他與喬．塔斯克成功登上難度幾近無法攀越的強卡邦峰，接著又攀登了干城章嘉峰（Kangchenjunga），並且嘗試攻克K2的峰頂，但惡劣天氣加上體力耗竭而功敗垂成。 隨後是1981年的公格爾峰（Mount Kongur），並在1982年3月參加克里斯．鮑寧頓、喬．塔斯克和迪克．阮修的小型遠征隊，他試圖首攀高難度的聖母峰東北脊，途中與喬．塔斯克兩人不幸喪命。 彼得和喬留下了兩則傳奇。一則是他們偉大的努力，以大膽、輕...(展开全部)

In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps--a community devoted exclusively to sickness--as a microcosm for Europe, which in the years before 1914 was already exhibiting the first symptoms of its own terminal irrationality. The Magic Mountain is a monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, a book that p...(展开全部)