Sata is the cape at the southernmost tip of Kyushu in southwest Japan. Booth, an Englishman living in Japan, walked there from Cape Soya at the northernmost tip of Hokkaido in northern Japan. It took him 128 days, following a mostly rural route down the eastern side of the islands. His book is a delightful series of encounters with and impressions of local people who were aston...(展开全部)

In 1867, John Muir, age twenty-eight, was blinded in an industrial accident. He lay in bed for two weeks wondering if he would ever see again. When his sight miraculously returned, Muir resolved to devote all his time to the great passion of his life -- studying plants. He quit his job in an Indiana manufacturing plant, said good-bye to his family, and set out alone to walk to ...(展开全部)

Here is the adventure that started John Muir on a lifetime of discovery. Taken from his earliest journals, this book records Muir's walk in 1867 from Indiana across Kentucky. Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida to the Gulf Coast. In his distinct and wonderful style, Muir shows us the wilderness, as well as the towns and people, of the South immediately after the Civ...(展开全部)

“I had experienced absolute freedom—I had felt that my body was without boundaries, limitless; that pain didn’t matter, that nothing mattered at all—and it intoxicated me.” In 2010, more than 750,000 people stood in line at Marina Abramović’s MoMA retrospective for the chance to sit across from her and communicate with her nonverbally in an unprecedented durational performance ...(展开全部)

“I had experienced absolute freedom—I had felt that my body was without boundaries, limitless; that pain didn’t matter, that nothing mattered at all—and it intoxicated me.” In 2010, more than 750,000 people stood in line at Marina Abramović’s MoMA retrospective for the chance to sit across from her and communicate with her nonverbally in an unprecedented durational performance ...(展开全部)

This is a textbook for an introductory combinatorics course that can take up one or two semesters. An extensive list of problems, ranging from routine exercises to research questions, is included. In each section, there are also exercises that contain material not explicitly discussed in the preceding text, so as to provide instructors with extra choices if they want to shift t...(展开全部)

The last person Landon thought he would fall for was Jamie Sullivan, daughter of the town's Baptist minister. A quiet girl, Jamie seemed content living in a world apart from the other teens. She took care of her widowed father, rescued hurt animals and volunteered at the local orphanage. Landon would never have dreamed of asking her out, but a twist of fate threw them together ...(展开全部)

艾伦•麦克法兰 英国著名社会人类学家、历史学家、剑桥大学社会人类学教授、剑桥大学国王学院院士、英国学术院院士、欧洲学术院院士。著述凡18种，包括《英国个人主义的起源》、《玻璃的世界》、《给莉莉的信》（以上三种均有中译本）、《都铎和斯图亚特时代英格兰的巫术》、《重构历史共同体》、《17世纪牧师拉尔夫•乔斯林的家庭生活》、《资本主义文化》和《现代世界的形成》等。

艾伦•麦克法兰 英国著名社会人类学家、历史学家、剑桥大学社会人类学教授、剑桥大学国王学院院士、英国学术院院士、欧洲学术院院士。著述凡18种，包括《英国个人主义的起源》、《玻璃的世界》、《给莉莉的信》（以上三种均有中译本）、《都铎和斯图亚特时代英格兰的巫术》、《重构历史共同体》、《17世纪牧师拉尔夫•乔斯林的家庭生活》、《资本主义文化》和《现代世界的形成》等。