多丽丝·莱辛（Doris Lessing，1919—2013） 英国作家。生于波斯（今伊朗），在南罗德西亚（今津巴布韦）父亲的农场上长大。1949 年，带幼子和第一部小说《野草在歌唱》回英国，从此走上文坛。一生著作等身，形式多样，有长篇小说、短篇小说、自传、散文、剧本等。作品涉及二十世纪英属非洲殖民地、南非以及二十世纪后半叶的英国及欧洲局势，着重呈现内心世界的复杂、困惑和彷徨。代表作有《野草在歌唱》（1950）、《金色笔记》（1962）、《特别的猫》（1967）、《第五个孩子》（1988）等。2007 年，荣获诺贝尔文学奖，颁奖词称她为“女性经验史诗的抒写者，以怀疑、激情和远见审视了一个分裂的文明”。

This much-acclaimed collection of stories vividly evokes both the grandeur of Africa, the glare of its sun and the wide open space, as well as the great, irresolvable tensions between whites and blacks. Tales of poor white farmers and their lonely wives, of storm air thick with locusts, of ants and pomegranate trees, black servants and the year of hunger in a native village - a...(展开全部)

This much-acclaimed collection of stories vividly evokes both the grandeur of Africa, the glare of its sun and the wide open space, as well as the great, irresolvable tensions between whites and blacks. Tales of poor white farmers and their lonely wives, of storm air thick with locusts, of ants and pomegranate trees, black servants and the year of hunger in a native village - a...(展开全部)

多丽丝·莱辛（Doris Lessing，1919—2013） 英国作家。生于波斯（今伊朗），在南罗德西亚（今津巴布韦）父亲的农场上长大。1949 年，带幼子和第一部小说《野草在歌唱》回英国，从此走上文坛。一生著作等身，形式多样，有长篇小说、短篇小说、自传、散文、剧本等。作品涉及二十世纪英属非洲殖民地、南非以及二十世纪后半叶的英国及欧洲局势，着重呈现内心世界的复杂、困惑和彷徨。代表作有《野草在歌唱》（1950）、《金色笔记》（1962）、《特别的猫》（1967）、《第五个孩子》（1988）等。2007 年，荣获诺贝尔文学奖，颁奖词称她为“女性经验史诗的抒写者，以怀疑、激情和远见审视了一个分裂的文明”。

A millennium into the future, two advancements have altered the course of human history:  the colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain.  On the beautiful Outer World planet of Solaria, a handful of human colonists lead a hermit-like existence, their every need attended to by their faithful robot servants.  To this strange and provocative planet comes ...(展开全部)

A millennium into the future, two advancements have altered the course of human history:  the colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain.  On the beautiful Outer World planet of Solaria, a handful of human colonists lead a hermit-like existence, their every need attended to by their faithful robot servants.  To this strange and provocative planet comes ...(展开全部)

In 1957, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa to witness the beginning of the end of colonial rule as the first African correspondent of Poland's state newspaper. From the early days of independence in Ghana to the ongoing ethnic genocide in Rwanda, Kapuscinski has crisscrossed vast distances pursuing the swift, and often violent, events that followed liberation. Kapuscinski h...(展开全部)

In 1957, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa to witness the beginning of the end of colonial rule as the first African correspondent of Poland's state newspaper. From the early days of independence in Ghana to the ongoing ethnic genocide in Rwanda, Kapuscinski has crisscrossed vast distances pursuing the swift, and often violent, events that followed liberation. Kapuscinski h...(展开全部)

This award-winning, double-sided foldout book takes you on a fascinating journey down through the layers of the Earth, all the way to the planet's core and out the other side. When you're out walking around, whether on the city streets or a country trail, there's always so much to see and hear. But do you ever stop and look down? Have you ever wondered what's going on deep in t...(展开全部)

夏洛特•吉兰 从事童书文字创作，作品《寻找大脚怪》（Spaghetti with the Yeti）入围罗尔德•达尔幽默童书奖。她和丈夫合作出书，他们跟两个孩子一起生活在英国牛津郡。 尤瓦•左默 毕业于英国皇家艺术学院，获插画专业硕士学位，现居伦敦。他曾是一名成功的广告创意总监，因为热爱儿童文学，开始从事童书创作，作品包括处女作《山上的蓝色大块头》（The Big Blue Thing on the Hill），备受好评的《一百根骨头》（One Hundred Bones）和《走进奇妙的虫子世界》（The Big Book of Bugs）等。