On sick leave from Scotland Yard, Inspector Alan Grant is planning a quiet holiday with an old school chum to recover from overwork and mental fatigue. Traveling on the night train to Scotland, however, Grant stumbles upon a dead man and a cryptic poem about "the stones that walk" and "the singing sand", which send him off on a fascinating search into the verse's meaning and th...(展开全部)

The Singing Wilderness is Sigurd Olson's first and best-selling book, with over 70,000 copies sold in hardcover since its release in 1956. Now available in paperback for the first time, this volume established Olson as a major writer renowned for the beauty of his prose and the clarity of his vision."The singing wilderness has to do with the calling of the loons, northern light...(展开全部)

Along with the concepts of consciousness and intelligence, our capacity for language sits right at the core of what makes us human. But while the evolutionary origins of language have provoked speculation and impassioned debate, music has been neglected if not ignored. Like language it is a universal feature of human culture, one that is a permanent fixture in our daily lives....(展开全部)

R.奥斯汀•弗里曼 （R. Austin Freeman, 1862—1943） 英国侦探小说家，以桑代克系列侦探小说闻名于世。生于伦敦，于1887年获得医学学位。1891年开始创作侦探小说，将医学知识大量运用到作品中。1907年推出第一部以桑代克医师为主角的长篇小说《上帝的指纹》，接着便推出一系列短篇集和多部长篇，保持着旺盛的创作力直至逝世。1912年的短篇集《歌唱的白骨》开创了“反叙述性侦探小说”的先河，在推理小说史上占有独特的伟大地位。弗里曼笔下的桑代克医师堪称侦探小说史上科学办案的典范，也是CSI、犯罪实验室的灵感起源。

Set in South Africa under white rule, Doris Lessing's first novel is both a riveting chronicle of human disintegration and a be autifully understated social critique. Mary Turner is a self-confident, independent young woman who becomes the depressed, frustrated wife of an ineffectual, unsuccessful farmer. Little by little the ennui of years on the farm work their slow poison, a...(展开全部)

若热•亚马多（1912—2001），巴西当代著名作家，才华横溢，勤奋多产，在巴西拥有最广泛的读者，作品长年畅销不衰。1931年发表处女作《狂欢节之国》，1933年因发表以可可种植园农民的苦难生活为题材的小说《可可》一举成名。1937年由于参加进步政治运动被捕入狱，他的书被认为颠覆政权，《狂欢节之国》、《可可》、《汗珠》、《儒比亚巴》、《死海》、《沙滩船长》等被当众焚烧。后流亡国外，1952年回国后专事写作，1958年推出《加布里埃拉》，首印两万册，几天内销售一空。1961年当选为巴西文学院院士，五年后获得诺贝尔文学奖提名。 若热•亚马多在近七十年的文学生涯中创作了三十多部长篇和短篇小说，以及诗歌、散文。其作品被译成四十九种文字，在五十五个国家出版。他在作品中反映了巴西社会生活的许多方面，创造了五百多个生动的人物形象，其中不少人物在巴西家喻户晓。他的作...(展开全部)

若热•亚马多（1912—2001），巴西当代著名作家，才华横溢，勤奋多产，在巴西拥有最广泛的读者，作品长年畅销不衰。1931年发表处女作《狂欢节之国》，1933年因发表以可可种植园农民的苦难生活为题材的小说《可可》一举成名。1937年由于参加进步政治运动被捕入狱，他的书被认为颠覆政权，《狂欢节之国》、《可可》、《汗珠》、《儒比亚巴》、《死海》、《沙滩船长》等被当众焚烧。后流亡国外，1952年回国后专事写作，1958年推出《加布里埃拉》，首印两万册，几天内销售一空。1961年当选为巴西文学院院士，五年后获得诺贝尔文学奖提名。 若热•亚马多在近七十年的文学生涯中创作了三十多部长篇和短篇小说，以及诗歌、散文。其作品被译成四十九种文字，在五十五个国家出版。他在作品中反映了巴西社会生活的许多方面，创造了五百多个生动的人物形象，其中不少人物在巴西家喻户晓。他的作...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Book Description Spain. A land of eternal passion and unceasing bloodshed. From the vengeance of a pitiless tyrant, four women flee the sacred, once-safe walls of a convent: LUCIA, the proud survivor harboring a murderous secret from the savage clan wars of Sicily...GRACIELLA, the beauty still unpurged of guilt from one reckless, youthful sin...MEGAN, the orphan seeki...(展开全部)

Arabian Sands is Wilfred Thesiger's record of his extraordinary journey through the parched "Empty Quarter" of Arabia. Educated at Eton and Oxford, Thesiger was repulsed by the softness and rigidity of Western life-"the machines, the calling cards, the meticulously aligned streets." In the spirit of T. E. Lawrence, he set out to explore the deserts of Arabia, traveling among p...(展开全部)

The southern Arabian desert, a quarter million square miles of sand (650,000 square kilometers), is now a place of oil wells and Land Rovers, but before the 1950s it was still known as the Empty Quarter, a place you entered only on camel and only as an Arab. Only a few white men had ever seen it, much less crossed it. From 1945 to 1950, the British Thesiger crossed it twice, li...(展开全部)