Enjoyed by millions since its first publication in 1959, The Travels Of Jaimie McPheeters is the lively story of a 13-year-old boy's adventures on a journey across America in 1849. This million-copy Pulitzer Prize-winning classic details the journey of Jaimie and his father from Kentucky to gold-rush California.

Marco Polo was the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which he served the Kubilai Khan on numerous diplomatic missions. On his return to the West, he was made a prisoner of war and met Rustichello of Pisa, with whom he collaborated on this book. The accounts of his travels provide a fascinating glimpse of the different soci...(展开全部)

刘鹗（è）（1857年10月18日—1909年8月23日），清末小说家。谱名震远，原名孟鹏，字云抟、公约。后更名鹗，字铁云（刘铁云[1]），又字公约，号老残。署名“洪都百炼生”。汉族，江苏丹徒（今镇江市）人，寄籍山阳（今江苏淮安区）。刘鹗自青年时期拜从太谷学派李光(龙川)之后，终生主张以“教养”为大纲，发展经济生产，富而后教，养民为本的太谷学说。他一生从事实业，投资教育，为的就是能够实现太谷学派“教养天下”的目的。而他之所以能屡败屡战、坚韧不拔，太谷学派的思想可以说是他的精神支柱。

He did not return to Morocco for another twenty-nine years, travelling instead through more than forty countries on the modern map, covering seventy-five thousand miles and getting as far north as the Volga, as far east as China and as far south as Tanzania. He wrote of his travels, and comes across as a superb ethnographer, biographer, anecdotal historian and occasional botani...(展开全部)

Marco Polo was the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which he served the Kubilai Khan on numerous diplomatic missions. On his return to the West, he was made a prisoner of war and met Rustichello of Pisa, with whom he collaborated on this book. The accounts of his travels provide a fascinating glimpse of the different soci...(展开全部)

刘鹗（è）（1857年10月18日—1909年8月23日），清末小说家。谱名震远，原名孟鹏，字云抟、公约。后更名鹗，字铁云（刘铁云[1]），又字公约，号老残。署名“洪都百炼生”。汉族，江苏丹徒（今镇江市）人，寄籍山阳（今江苏淮安区）。刘鹗自青年时期拜从太谷学派李光(龙川)之后，终生主张以“教养”为大纲，发展经济生产，富而后教，养民为本的太谷学说。他一生从事实业，投资教育，为的就是能够实现太谷学派“教养天下”的目的。而他之所以能屡败屡战、坚韧不拔，太谷学派的思想可以说是他的精神支柱。

Twice in this century, Germany initiated wars of unimagined terror and destruction. In both cases, defense of the Prussian” realm, the German homeland, was the perceived and vilified perpetrator. Few today understand with any precision what Prussia” means, either geographically or nationalistically, but neither would they deny the psychic resonance of the single word. To most, ...(展开全部)

Between 1990 and 1994, Colm Toibin made a series of trips through Catholic Europe, and then set down his impressions in this beautifully written book. His journey led him into close contact with people from all walks of life, from priests to politicians, from the intellectually open to the spiritually bigoted. Filled with personal detail set within its historical context, this ...(展开全部)

Colm Tóibín is one of Ireland's most distinguished young writers; he is also a lapsed Catholic. Yet over a succession of Holy Weeks, Toibin found himself traveling to places where Catholicism still possesses mystery and power, from Poland to Lithuania, from Lourdes to Santiago, and from Croatia to Ireland. And in seeing how the faith persisted in other people's lives, he discov...(展开全部)

Twice in this century, Germany initiated wars of unimagined terror and destruction. In both cases, defense of the Prussian” realm, the German homeland, was the perceived and vilified perpetrator. Few today understand with any precision what Prussia” means, either geographically or nationalistically, but neither would they deny the psychic resonance of the single word. To most, ...(展开全部)