Imagine hacking your way through thick jungle while racked with malaria. The country around you is in chaos and on the brink of civil war. And you discover, despite all this, the lost city of Tikal. And 43 other Maya ruins. Stephens is the father of American archaeology, and this is his beautiful account of the expedition that made him so.

作者简介：约翰·史蒂芬斯（John L. Stephens），十九世纪美国外交官、探险家、作家，以“重新”发现玛雅文明而闻名于世。一八三四年，史蒂芬斯踏上横越欧洲的旅程，并写下《埃及、佩特拉阿拉伯和圣地发现之旅》《希腊、土耳其、俄罗斯和波兰发现之旅》两本著作。结束欧洲之行后，史蒂芬斯受探险家亚历山大·冯·洪堡德（Alexander von Humboldt）和胡安·加林多（Juan Galindo）的影响，开始对玛雅文明产生浓厚兴趣。一八三九年，时任美国总统的马丁·范布伦（Martin Van Buren）派遣史蒂芬斯到中美洲担任外交大使，期间著有《中美洲、加帕斯和犹加坦发现之旅》，该书在短短的三个月内就重印了十二次，奠定史蒂芬斯畅销作家的地位。一八四一年十月，史蒂芬森斯画家卡塞伍德（Frederick Catherwood）等人重返犹加坦半岛，此次...(展开全部)

Originally published by John Murray this is an account of Smith's time in Yemen, which started as a sabbatical year in 1982 and grew into fifteen years. Smith travelled the mountains, the desert and the sea and brings the country, the people and three millennia of history to life. scholarly and entertaining... Mackintosh Smith succeeds admirably in shining a light on an obscure...(展开全部)

Anne Carson has been acclaimed by her peers as the most imaginative poet writing today. In a recent profile, The New York Times Magazine paid tribute to her amazing ability to combine the classical and the modern, the mundane and the surreal, in a body of work that is sure to endure. In Men in the Off Hours , Carson offers further proof of her tantalizing gifts. Reinventi...(展开全部)

作者简介：约翰·史蒂芬斯（John L. Stephens），十九世纪美国外交官、探险家、作家，以“重新”发现玛雅文明而闻名于世。一八三四年，史蒂芬斯踏上横越欧洲的旅程，并写下《埃及、佩特拉阿拉伯和圣地发现之旅》《希腊、土耳其、俄罗斯和波兰发现之旅》两本著作。结束欧洲之行后，史蒂芬斯受探险家亚历山大·冯·洪堡德（Alexander von Humboldt）和胡安·加林多（Juan Galindo）的影响，开始对玛雅文明产生浓厚兴趣。一八三九年，时任美国总统的马丁·范布伦（Martin Van Buren）派遣史蒂芬斯到中美洲担任外交大使，期间著有《中美洲、加帕斯和犹加坦发现之旅》，该书在短短的三个月内就重印了十二次，奠定史蒂芬斯畅销作家的地位。一八四一年十月，史蒂芬森斯画家卡塞伍德（Frederick Catherwood）等人重返犹加坦半岛，此次...(展开全部)

Imagine hacking your way through thick jungle while racked with malaria. The country around you is in chaos and on the brink of civil war. And you discover, despite all this, the lost city of Tikal. And 43 other Maya ruins. Stephens is the father of American archaeology, and this is his beautiful account of the expedition that made him so.

'No serious writer of this century has more thoroughly invaded and shaped the public imagination than did Graham Greene' Time WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Wormold is a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of power cuts. His adolescent daughter spends his money with a skill that amazes him, so when a mysterious Englishman offers him an extra income he's tempted. In ...(展开全部)

Graham Greeneas classic Cuban spy story, now with a new package and a new introduction First published in 1959, "Our Man in Havana" is an espionage thriller, a penetrating character study, and a political satire that still resonates today. Conceived as one of Graham Greeneas aentertainments, a it tells of MI6as man in Havana, Wormold, a former vacuum-cleaner salesman turned re...(展开全部)

Every building tells a story, but in the jungles of Mumbai, one building - and one man- stand on the borderline between India's past and its future. Ask any Bombaywallah about Vishram Society - Tower A of the Vishram Co-operative Housing Society - and you will be told that it has been pucca for some fifty years despite its location under the flight path and border of slums. But...(展开全部)