司马辽太郎，（1923～1996年），日本历史小说家。生于大阪。原名福田定一，其笔名乃取自“远不及司马迁之太郎”之意。1943年毕业于大阪外语学院蒙语系，1946年入京都新日本新闻社，丽年后任产经新闻社记者，同时发表作品。1961年开始专业作家的生活。司马的小说，把历史上推动生产力向前发展的人物放在革新与守旧势力尖锐斗争的环境中，从各方面来歌颂他们的“励精图治”和“文治武功”。多卷本历史小说代表作《龙马行进》，叙述十九世纪六十年代明治维新从酝酿到胜利的全过程，反映了封建社会没落时期的黑暗政治以及错综复杂的阶级矛盾和斗争，赞扬进步阶层的反抗精神和变革愿望。司马善于以历史事件构成波澜壮阔的艺术画面，并采用多线索推进的写法，叙述长达数十年的历史，前因后果比较清晰。在他的小说中，经常以冷静、理性的历史观来审查主观的、非理性的意识形态。因此，有人称他的历史小说...(展开全部)

As the "Kaisar-i-Hind" weighs anchor for Bombay in the autumn of 1928, its passengers ponder their fate in a distant land. They are part of the "Fishing Fleet" -- the name given to the legions of Englishwomen who sail to India each year in search of husbands, heedless of the life that awaits them. The inexperienced chaperone Viva Holloway has been entrusted to watch over three ...(展开全部)

As the "Kaisar-i-Hind" weighs anchor for Bombay in the autumn of 1928, its passengers ponder their fate in a distant land. They are part of the "Fishing Fleet" -- the name given to the legions of Englishwomen who sail to India each year in search of husbands, heedless of the life that awaits them. The inexperienced chaperone Viva Holloway has been entrusted to watch over three ...(展开全部)

A Maritime History of East Asia takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the history of a region from the perspective of the interactions that occurred on and were facilitated by the sea. The book is divided into three parts that each focus on a different hundred-year period between 1250 and 1800, characterized by ‘openness’, ‘competition’ and ‘compartmentalization’ re...(展开全部)

马克·布拉齐尔（Mark Brazil）， 苏格兰斯特灵大学博士，经验丰富的野外鸟类学家。著有《东亚鸟类野外手册》（Birds of East Asia），以及《日本观鸟指南》（ A Birdwatcher's Guide to Japan）、《日本鸟类》（The Birds of Japan）和《大天鹅》（The Whooper Swan）等。

马克·布拉齐尔（Mark Brazil）， 苏格兰斯特灵大学博士，经验丰富的野外鸟类学家。著有《东亚鸟类野外手册》（Birds of East Asia），以及《日本观鸟指南》（ A Birdwatcher's Guide to Japan）、《日本鸟类》（The Birds of Japan）和《大天鹅》（The Whooper Swan）等。

From the time of the ancient Greeks onwards the West's relationship with Asia consisted for the most part of outrageous tales of strange beasts and monsters, of silk and spices shipped over vast distances and an uneasy sense of unknowable empires fantastically far away. By the twentieth century much of Asia might have come under Western rule after centuries of warfare, but its ...(展开全部)

From the time of the ancient Greeks onwards the West's relationship with Asia consisted for the most part of outrageous tales of strange beasts and monsters, of silk and spices shipped over vast distances and an uneasy sense of unknowable empires fantastically far away. By the twentieth century much of Asia might have come under Western rule after centuries of warfare, but its ...(展开全部)