Watch me. I am water. Home of the fish. Rain of the clouds. Drink for people. Bath for babies. So begins this exploration of water in its many forms. From steam for cooking to ice for cooling, children will marvel at the beauty and usefulness of water. With Judith Moffatt's colorful cut-paper illustrations and best-selling author Jean Marzollo's simple yet powerful text, childr...(展开全部)

金庸（1924- ），当代最为著名的武侠小说作家。他本名查良镛，浙江海宁人，上海东吴法学院毕业。1959年在香港亲手创办明报机构，出版报纸、杂志和图书，1993年退休。先后创作了十五部长篇及短篇的武侠小说，广受欢迎，印量无数。曾获颂多项荣衔，包括2000年获香港特别行政区颁授最高荣誉大紫荆勋章，香港和各国多所大学的荣誉学位、名誉教授、院士。还担任过浙江大学人文学院院长，英国牛津大学汉学研究院高级研究员。

The acclaimed travel writer's youthful journey - as an 18-year-old - across 1930s Europe by foot began in A Time of Gifts, which covered the author's exacting journey from the Lowlands as far as Hungary. Picking up from the very spot on a bridge across the Danube where his readers last saw him, we travel on with him across the great Hungarian Plain on horseback, and over the Ro...(展开全部)

帕特里克•莱斯•弗莫尔（Patrick Leigh Fermor，1915—2011），爱尔兰裔，出生于一个英格兰上流社会家庭，他的父亲是知名的地质学家。弗莫尔是一位勇敢的旅行者，也被誉为是二十世纪英国最优秀的旅行作家之一。弗莫尔在结束自己的学校生涯后，于18岁那年只身出走，逃离了他所处的上流社会以及循规蹈矩的生活。他徒步穿越了欧洲，在欧洲各地游历和生活。在第二次世界大战期间，他应征入伍加入了爱尔兰卫队，在阿尔巴尼亚战斗；他还参与了英国特别行动处（SOE）突袭德占克里特岛的行动，俘虏了德军驻克里特岛的指挥官海因里希•克莱佩将军。他因此被授予了“优质服务勋章”（DSO）和大英帝国官佐勋章（OBE）。战后，他与他未来的妻子琼•蒙赛尔周游巴尔干和希腊，并定居希腊开始写作。2011年，弗莫尔与世长辞。

In 1886, the Ihalmiut people of northern Canada numbered seven thousand; by 1946, when Farley Mowat began his two-year stay in the Arctic, the population had fallen to just forty. With them, he observed for the first time the phenomenon that would inspire him for the rest of his life: the millennia-old migration of the Arctic’s caribou herds. He also endured bleak, interminable...(展开全部)

作者 法利•莫厄特（1921—2014），加拿大国宝级作家，坚定的环保主义者，一生出版著作44本，有2500多万册远销世界60多个国家。代表作有《与狼共度》《鲸之殇》《鹿之民》《屠海》等。1981年，他被授予加拿大国家二等官佐勋章——加拿大的最高荣誉之一，旨在表彰他对全人类的贡献。 译者 舒兰，绵阳师范学院外国语学院教师，主题研究方向为英汉语言对比与翻译，曾参与四川李白文化研究中心课题“李白传说故事”汉英翻译工作，主持四川省翻译协会课题“平武白马藏族文化外译问题与对策探究”等科研课题。 骆海辉，绵阳师范学院外国语学院教授、四川省翻译协会常务理事、西南科技大学MTI（翻译硕士）教育中心兼职硕士生导师。绵阳师范学院首届“教学良师”。已出版译著《欧洲民族思想变迁：一部文化史》等。

In 1886, the Ihalmiut people of northern Canada numbered seven thousand; by 1946, when Farley Mowat began his two-year stay in the Arctic, the population had fallen to just forty. With them, he observed for the first time the phenomenon that would inspire him for the rest of his life: the millennia-old migration of the Arctic’s caribou herds. He also endured bleak, interminable...(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)

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)