An Orange Prize Finalist A Man Booker Prize Nominee Winner of the 2009 Betty Trask Prize A Guardian First Book Award Nominee Jake is in the tailspin of old age. His wife has passed away, his son is in prison, and now he is about to lose his past to Alzheimer’s. As the disease takes hold of him, Jake’s memories become increasingly unreliable. What happened to his daughter? Is...(展开全部)

萨曼莎•哈维1975年出生于英国。曾旅居爱尔兰、新西兰与日本，从事写作与教学工作。现居英国巴斯，除了文学创作，还参与环保慈善事业。 《荒野》是作者的第一本长篇小说。本书甫一出版就受到了广泛关注，成为2008年伦敦书展重点书，继而成为2009橘子文学奖决赛入围作品，2009年布克奖初赛入围作品，并获得了贝蒂特拉斯克处女作文学奖。书评家将她誉为21世纪的“弗吉尼亚•伍尔夫”。《哈泼时尚》杂志将作者评选为2009年最值得关注的三位女性之一，她也是该杂志邀请专访并将其照片作为春季版特刊的唯一一位作家。

The Singing Wilderness is Sigurd Olson's first and best-selling book, with over 70,000 copies sold in hardcover since its release in 1956. Now available in paperback for the first time, this volume established Olson as a major writer renowned for the beauty of his prose and the clarity of his vision."The singing wilderness has to do with the calling of the loons, northern light...(展开全部)

A leathery bog-man transforms an old love affair; a sweet, gruesome gift is sent by the wife of an ex-lover; landscape paintings are haunted by the ghost of a young girl. This dazzling collection of ten short stories takes us into familiar Atwood territory to reveal the logic of irrational behaviour and the many textures lying beneath ordinary life.

In each of these tales Margaret Atwood deftly illuminates the single instant that shapes a whole life: in a few brief pages we watch as characters progress from the vulnerabilities of adolescence through the passions of youth into the precarious complexities of middle age.By superimposing the past on the present, Atwood paints interior landscapes shaped by time, regret, and lif...(展开全部)

"A passionately felt, deeply poetic book. It has philosophy. It has humor. It has its share of nerve-tingling adventures...set down in a lean, racing prose, in a close-knit style of power and beauty." THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOKREVIEW Edward Abbey lived for three seasons in the desert at Moab, Utah, and what he discovered about the land before him, the world around him, and the hea...(展开全部)

爱德华・阿比，出生于美国西南部宾西尼亚州的一个农场。除了《孤独的沙漠》以外，他的代表作还有《痛苦的猴群》、《黑日》、《山火》、《勇敢的牛仔》、《回家》、《阿比的路》、《好消息》、《河下游》、《石盐与樱桃派》等。他于1989年3月去世，享年62岁。

This is probably the first large-scale photographic essay dedicated to the Asian continent's natural wonders. The 44 regions this handsome volume explores-some famous, some almost unknown, all extensively narrated and gorgeously illustrated-are Asia's calling card; it is a continent that still preserves huge expanse of pristine nature and amazing biodiversity hotspots. Their s...(展开全部)

约翰·海恩斯（1924-2011）生于美国弗吉尼亚州诺福克郡，海军军官之子，二战期间曾在南太平洋的驱逐舰上服役三年。后在华府和纽约学习绘画，1947年移居阿拉斯加，在费尔班克斯东南外80英里的山间拥有一片自己的土地，以设陷阱捕猎为生。 他是阿拉斯加州桂冠诗人，与勃莱、默温等同属新超现实主义。获奖包括美国国家艺术基金会文学奖、两次古根汉诗歌奖、美国诗人学会年奖和勒诺·马歇尔诗歌奖等。他的写作经济、克制，曾出版诗歌、散文著作20余本。 他一生中曾在美国多所高校教书，生命后期居住于蒙大拿州赫勒拿，但常常返回阿拉斯加，最终在那里去世。

he City and the Wilderness recounts the journeys and micro-histories of Indo-Persian travelers across the Indian Ocean and their encounters with the Burmese Kingdom and its littoral at the turn of the nineteenth century. As Mughal sovereignty waned under British colonial rule, Indo-Persian travelers and intermediaries linked to the East India Company explored and surveyed the B...(展开全部)