This is the story of a single pebble. It is just a normal pebble, as you might pick up on holiday - on a beach in Wales, say. Its history, though, carries us into abyssal depths of time, and across the farthest reaches of space. This is a narrative of the Earth's long and dramatic history, as gleaned from a single pebble. It begins as the pebble-particles form amid unimaginable...(展开全部)

This is the story of a single pebble. It is just a normal pebble, as you might pick up on holiday - on a beach in Wales, say. Its history, though, carries us into abyssal depths of time, and across the farthest reaches of space. This is a narrative of the Earth's long and dramatic history, as gleaned from a single pebble. It begins as the pebble-particles form amid unimaginab...(展开全部)

The 4.4-billion-year history of the oceans and their role in Earth's climate system It has often been said that we know more about the moon than we do about our own oceans. In fact, we know a great deal more about the oceans than many people realize. Scientists know that our actions today are shaping the oceans and climate of tomorrow--and that if we continue to act recklessly,...(展开全部)

From the best-selling, award-winning author of Landmarks and The Old Ways, a haunting voyage into the planet’s past and future. Hailed as "the great nature writer of this generation" (Wall Street Journal), Robert Macfarlane is the celebrated author of books about the intersections of the human and the natural realms. In Underland, he delivers his masterpiece: an epic exploratio...(展开全部)

罗伯特·麦克法伦（Robert Macfarlane），英国作家、评论家，剑桥学者，英国皇家文学学会会员，最年轻的布克奖评委会主席。 1976年出生于英国诺丁汉，牛津大学哲学硕士、剑桥大学博士。剑桥大学伊曼纽尔学院研究员、英语系文学与环境人文学教授。学术研究和写作侧重深耕自然与文学的关系。文章与评论多见于《新科学家》《纽约客》《自然》《卫报》《纽约时报》《格兰塔》。 麦克法伦以行走滋养书写，处女作便将当代旅行写作推向了新高度。《格兰塔》前主编誉之为“当代最好的行走文学作家”，《华尔街日报》称他为“当代最好的自然作家及诗人”。2003年获《卫报》首作奖、《星期日泰晤士报》年度青年作家奖。2004年获毛姆文学奖。2017年获E. M. 福斯特文学奖。2019年获温赖特奖、美国国家户外图书奖。

In Underland, Robert Macfarlane takes us on a journey into the worlds beneath our feet. From the ice-blue depths of Greenland's glaciers, to the underground networks by which trees communicate, from Bronze Age burial chambers to the rock art of remote Arctic sea-caves, this is a deep-time voyage into the planet's past and future. Global in its geography, gripping in its voice a...(展开全部)

罗伯特·麦克法伦（Robert Macfarlane），英国作家、评论家，剑桥学者，英国皇家文学学会会员，最年轻的布克奖评委会主席。 1976年出生于英国诺丁汉，牛津大学哲学硕士、剑桥大学博士。剑桥大学伊曼纽尔学院研究员、英语系文学与环境人文学教授。学术研究和写作侧重深耕自然与文学的关系。文章与评论多见于《新科学家》《纽约客》《自然》《卫报》《纽约时报》《格兰塔》。 麦克法伦以行走滋养书写，处女作便将当代旅行写作推向了新高度。《格兰塔》前主编誉之为“当代最好的行走文学作家”，《华尔街日报》称他为“当代最好的自然作家及诗人”。2003年获《卫报》首作奖、《星期日泰晤士报》年度青年作家奖。2004年获毛姆文学奖。2017年获E. M. 福斯特文学奖。2019年获温赖特奖、美国国家户外图书奖。

From the best-selling, award-winning author of Landmarks and The Old Ways, a haunting voyage into the planet’s past and future. Hailed as "the great nature writer of this generation" (Wall Street Journal), Robert Macfarlane is the celebrated author of books about the intersections of the human and the natural realms. In Underland, he delivers his masterpiece: an epic exploratio...(展开全部)

In 2012, Norman Davies set off on a global circumnavigation. Native Lands is his account of the places he visited and the history he found there, from Abu Dhabi to Singapore, the settlement of Tasmania to the short-lived Republic of Texas. As in Vanished Kingdoms, Davies's historical gaze penetrates behind the present to see how things became as they are, and how peoples came t...(展开全部)

Bird Planet presents the best work of Tim Laman, the world’s most celebrated bird photographer Birder extraordinaire Tim Laman is a superstar in one of photography’s most challenging pursuits: The quest to portray birds in the wild. A naturalist and explorer as well as a brilliant image maker, he has spent thousands of hours over more than 30 years wedged precariously in the to...(展开全部)