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.

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。

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)

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。

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)

在线阅读本书 Immediately popular when it first appeared around 1356, The Travels of Sir John Mandeville became the standard account of the East for several centuriesa work that went on to influence luminaries as diverse as Leonardo da Vinci, Swift, and Coleridge. Ostensibly written by an English knight, the Travels purport to relate his experiences in the Holy Land, Egypt, Ind...(展开全部)

唐·沃森（Don Watson）澳大利亚著名作家、历史学家和公共演讲家。长年为澳大利亚的传奇电视剧《男仆报告》撰写政治讽刺剧本，电影作品则包括《控告上帝的人》和《激情》。在过去三十年，他在政治、历史和文化方面的文章及评论屡屡见诸澳大利亚各报刊，出版的专著好评如潮、畅销不衰，包括《流血之心的回忆》《死刑》《沃森的遁词词典》《美国之旅》《灵活的学问》《丛林》《恶词》等。已两次荣膺《时代报》年度图书奖和独立书商年度图书奖，阿尔弗雷德.迪肯美文奖、澳大利亚文学研究学会年度图书奖、沃克利奖、新南威尔士州长文学奖、菲利普.霍金斯澳大利亚文学金奖等。曾长期担任澳大利亚总理的演讲撰稿人，并定期举办职业写作艺术工作坊。现与作家克罗伊.胡珀及两个孩子居住在墨尔本。

From the author of The Last Mughal and Nine Lives : the classic stories he gathered during the ten years he spent journeying across the Indian subcontinent, from Sri Lanka and southern India to the North West Frontier of Pakistan. As he searched for evidence of Kali Yug, the “age of darkness” predicted by an ancient Hindu cosmology in a final epoch of strife and corruption, ...(展开全部)