A 19th-century whaling ship sets sail for the Arctic with a killer aboard in this dark, sharp and highly original tale that grips like a thriller. Behold the man. Stinking, drunk, brutal and bloodthirsty, Henry Drax is a harpooner on the 'Volunteer', a Yorkshire whaling ship that is due to set sail for the rich hunting waters of the Arctic Circle. Also aboard for the first time...(展开全部)

"A fast-paced, gripping story set in a world of gruesome violence and perversity, where 'why?' is not a question and murder happens on a whim: but where a very faint ray of grace and hope lights up the landscape of salt and blood and ice. A tour de force of narrative tension and a masterful reconstruction of a lost world that seems to exist at the limits of the human imaginatio...(展开全部)

"The Water Hole" is a fusion of counting book, puzzle book, storybook and art book. Graeme Base takes the reader on a journey of discovery, from the plains of Africa and the jungles of the Amazon to the woodlands of North America and the deserts of the Australian outback. As one rhino gives way to two tigers, with three toucans waiting in the wings, the tale unfolds on many lev...(展开全部)

Minoru Aose is an architect whose greatest achievement is to have designed the Yoshino house, a prizewinning and much discussed private residence built in the shadow of Mount Asama. Aose has never been able to replicate this triumph and his career seems to have hit a barrier, while his marriage has failed. He is shocked to learn that the Yoshino House is empty apart from a sing...(展开全部)

Even among Fleur Jaeggy’s singular and intricate works, The Water Statues is a shiningly peculiar book. Concerned with loneliness and wealth’s odd emotional poverty, this early novel is in part structured as a play: the dramatis personae include the various relatives, friends, and servants of a man named Beeklam, a wealthy recluse who keeps statues in his villa’s flooded baseme...(展开全部)

葛瑞米·贝斯（Graeme Base），世界上最棒的儿童图画书作家之一。他早年创作的字母书《动物王国》（Animalia）于1986年一问世，就立刻受到了国际性的赞誉。此书300万册的全球销量，奠定了其经典名作的地位。 贝斯的作品广受欢迎，获奖连连，包括：《第十一个小时》（The Eleventh Hour）、《来喝水吧》（The Waterhole）、《阿吉的许愿鼓》（Jungle Drums）、《阿诺的花园》（Uno's Garden）、《魔法失窃之谜》（Enigma, a Magical Mystery）、《卡纳克神庙的宝石鱼》（The Jewel Fish of Kamak）、《小不点大象》（Little Elephants）、《吴哥窟的最后一个国王》（The Last King of Angkor Wat）等等。 贝斯现在和他的艺术家妻子萝...(展开全部)

In the tradition of his best-selling alphabet book, Animalia, author and illustrator Graeme Base takes young readers on an exhilarating journey of discovery with an ingenious fusion of counting book, puzzle book, storybook, and art book. From the plains of Africa and the jungles of the Amazon to the woodlands of North America and the deserts of outback Australia, the an...(展开全部)

The Water Knife is a 2015 science fiction novel by Paolo Bacigalupi. It is Bacigalupi's sixth novel, and is based on his short story, The Tamarisk Hunter, first published in the news magazine High Country News. It takes place in the near future, where drought brought on by climate change has devastated the Southwestern United States. --------------------------- Central characte...(展开全部)

艾温·威·蒂尔（1899-1980），美国著名博物学家，摄影家、自然文学作家，生于伊利诺州，曾任纽约昆虫协会、布鲁克林昆虫协会主席、梭罗协会主席，美国皇家摄影协会会员。他配有自己拍摄的照片的自然图书以准确的科学信息和诗意的表达方式而著称，获得包括普利策奖和约翰·伯勒斯勋章在内的多个奖项。

As with the compass needle, so people have always been most powerfully attracted northwards; everyone carries within them their own concept of north. The Idea of North is a study, ranging widely in time and place, of some of the ways in which these ideas have found expression. Peter Davidson explores the topography of north as represented in images and literature, taking in Net...(展开全部)