One of the bestselling authors of Plato and a Platypus travels to Greece with a suitcase full of philosophy books, seeking the best way to achieve a fulfilling old age Daniel Klein journeys to the Greek island Hydra to discover the secrets of aging happily. Drawing on the lives of his Greek friends, as well as philosophers ranging from Epicurus to Sartre, Klein learns to ...(展开全部)

"A Journey in Search of Korea's Beauty" was a yearlong project that Bae Yong Joon undertook in order to learn more about traditional Korean culture from the unfledged yet earnest point of view of one Korean, and to record in a down-to- earth way what he learned and felt in the process. He chose 13 subjects he has been interested in out of the traditional Korean culture and fold...(展开全部)

In TRAVELS WITH BARLEY: A Journey Through Beer Culture in America, Ken Wells takes readers on a witty, literate and informative adventure down America?0?8s River of Beer?0?3a $75 billion juggernaut coursing through the heart of American commerce and through the hearts, minds and passions of 84 million beer drinkers. The book takes us, literally, down the mighty Mississippi, fro...(展开全部)

A poetic and nuanced exploration of the human experience of flight that reminds us of the full imaginative weight of our most ordinary journeys—and reawakens our capacity to be amazed. The twenty-first century has relegated airplane flight—a once remarkable feat of human ingenuity—to the realm of the mundane. Mark Vanhoenacker, a 747 pilot who left academia and a career in the ...(展开全部)

◎著者 马克•凡霍纳克 （Mark Vanhoenacker） 为了实现童年的飞行大梦，马克于研究生期间中断学业，投身咨询行业努力攒钱。2001年，他开始接受飞行训练，先后开过空客A320和波音747，如今已是资深的副驾驶，经常穿梭于世界各大都市。他还定期为《纽约时报》 撰稿，也是《石板杂志》的专栏作家。 ◎译者 吕奕欣 笔译专业毕业。曾任职于出版业与金融业，现专职翻译，译作涉及建筑设计、文学小说、语言学习、商业管理、旅游知识、健康养生等领域。 ◎审校 李文新 出生于军人家庭，他本人亦有30年的军旅生涯，多次立功受奖，授大校军衔，历任兰空航运团机械员、北空航技室工程师、空司航行局参谋、空军空管办副主任、空军装备研究院副师职研究员。2004年8月自主择业在国际航空运输协会（IATA）工作17年，历任北亚区航行运营及基础设施部副总监、北亚区安全与航行事务...(展开全部)

This publication is the outcome of the 2018 graduation dissertation of Italian architect Giorgio Azzariti. His research focuses on the Swiss architect Peter Märkli, and is divided across four sections: Journey, Imaginary, Language, and Reality. Märkli’s work does not fall easily into the customary narrative of Swiss architecture at the close of the 20th century, and even less s...(展开全部)

让-克里斯托夫·卡斯泰利（Jean-Christophe Castelli）曾以杂志编辑与自由撰稿人身份在《名利场》《时尚先生》及《电影制作者》等杂志上发表过文章。投身电影界后，在独立电影制片公司“好机器（Good Machine）”担任剧本监制，参与了众多电影项目并开始了与李安的长期合作关系，第一次是为1997年的《冰风暴》进行文化背景研究，紧接着是为2000年的《卧虎藏龙》做故事拓展。在进行自己的写作项目同时，卡斯泰利还在继续为李安做相应的研究与拓展工作，并以联合制片人的身份参与了《少年派的奇幻漂流》。

Diversely illustrated with 275 photographs and illustrations, The Making of Life of Pi tells the inside story of how renowned Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee brought Yann Martel's international bestseller to life as a 3-D film. With a rich, entertaining text and a wide variety of facts, anecdotes, visual portfolios, and sidebars sure to delight readers of all ages, The M...(展开全部)

With his dog Charley, John Steinbeck set out in his truck to explore and experience America in the 1960s. As he talked with all kinds of people, he sadly noted the passing of region speech, fell in love with Montana, and was appalled by racism in New Orleans.

A quest across America, from the northernmost tip of Maine to California’s Monterey Peninsula To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the trees, to see the colors and the light—these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover the country he had been writing about for so many years. With Charley, his French poodle, ...(展开全部)