One year before his dead Frank Kafka had an extraordinary experience. Having a walk through Steglitz Park, in Berlin, he found a little girl crying heartbroken. She had lost her doll. To calm her down Frank introduced himself as the Dolls's Postman, and told the little girl that the doll was away on a trip. But had send a letter for her that will be delivered by himself the fol...(展开全部)

One year before his dead Frank Kafka had an extraordinary experience. Having a walk through Steglitz Park, in Berlin, he found a little girl crying heartbroken. She had lost her doll. To calm her down Frank introduced himself as the Dolls's Postman, and told the little girl that the doll was away on a trip. But had send a letter for her that will be delivered by himself the fol...(展开全部)

When Louise Lambert receives a mysterious invitation to a traveling vintage fashion sale in the mail, her normal life in suburban Connecticut is magically transformed into a time-traveling adventure. After a brief encounter with two witchy salesladies and donning an evening gown that once belonged to a beautiful silent film star, Louise suddenly finds herself onboard a luxuriou...(展开全部)

中谷美紀ａｓ白洲正子。 ＮＨＫドラマスペシャル「白洲次郎」より。 白洲正子の西国巡礼の旅を再現。

From Publishers Weekly For some, the pain of exile is too great even to be named. So it is for Irene, the 35-year-old protagonist of this slender but intense novel. In the 1980s, Irene has emigrated to West Germany from an unnamed Eastern bloc country to escape political persecution. Adrift in Berlin, living first in a refugee hostel and then in an anonymous apartment complex, ...(展开全部)

カナダとメキシコを渡る蝶、オオカバマダラの旅を美しい絵で表現。著者の２度に渡るメキシコ取材により生まれた絵本。生命の神秘と力強さを鮮やかな色彩で描きます。

【美】斯图亚特•戈登(Stewart Gordon) 密西根大学南亚研究中心研究员。 · 斯图亚特•戈登并非一本正经的学者，他老是搭着巴士在土耳其、伊朗、阿富汗、巴基斯坦与印度闲晃，爬上秘鲁印加古道，或是乘船沿湄公河或密西西比河逆流而上。 · 戈登曾拍摄柬埔寨的古物与印度的旧石器时代岩窟壁画。他也是历史频道、探索频道、迪斯尼公司与美洲女王汽船公司的顾问。戈登亦曾荣获伍德罗•威尔逊奖学金、傅尔布莱特奖学金以及埃尔哈特基金会写作补助等多个奖项。戈登目前住在美国安娜堡，你可以在stewartgordonhistorian.com追踪其学术动态及其游历世界各地的照片。

While European civilization stagnated in the Dark Ages,” Asia flourished as the wellspring of science, philosophy, and religion. Linked together by a web of spiritual, commercial, and intellectual connections, the distant regions of Asia’s vast civilization, from Arabia to China, hummed with trade, international diplomacy, and the exchange of ideas. Stewart Gordon has fashioned...(展开全部)

How Asia's great civilization spread when its traveling merchants, scholars, and holy men brought their shining civilization to Europe's Dark Ages. While European intellectual, cultural, and commercial life stagnated during the early medieval period, Asia flourished as the wellspring of science, philosophy, and religion. Linked together by a web of religious, commercial, and...(展开全部)