After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, acclaimed New Yorker writer David Grann set out to solve “the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century”: What happened to the British explorer Percy Fawcett and his quest for the Lost City of Z? In 1925, Fawcett ventured into the Amazon to find an ancient civilization, vowing to make one of the most important archae...(展开全部)

the best book of noofiction to come out of India......Bombay/Mumbai

the best book of noofiction to come out of India......Bombay/Mumbai

A five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning medical mystery. And a pioneering journey into the unknown heart of the world's densest jungle. Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God. Indigenous tribes...(展开全部)

Rama Revealed (1993) is a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee. It is the last in a four-book series of Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama by these authors, and as the title suggests reveals the mysteries behind the enigmatic Rama spacecraft. Plot summary: The book picks up the story immediately after the end of The Garden of Rama. The book follows the story of N...(展开全部)

道格拉斯·普雷斯顿（Douglas Preston），曾在美国自然历史博物馆工作八年，做过编辑、撰稿人和出版经理，并在普林斯顿大学教授过写作课。他也是《纽约客》《自然历史》《国家地理》《哈珀斯》《史密森尼》《大西洋月刊》等杂志的特约撰稿人，著有《神秘黄金城》（Cities of Gold）等作品。 普雷斯顿也是一位畅销小说作家，他与林肯·柴尔德（Lincoln Child）联手打造的FBI探员彭德格斯特（Pendergast）系列畅销小说，数次位居《华尔街日报》《纽约时报》的“畅销书排行榜”榜首，其中《遗迹》（Relic）和《佛罗伦萨的恶魔》（The Monster of Florence）被改编为热门电影。

阿尼科特·乌拉尔（Aniket Ullal），First Bridge Data公司的创始人兼CEO。该公司为机构投资者提供ETF数据及分析服务，其客户包括资产管理经理以及财务数据和软件公司等。阿尼科特是ETF投资领域的专家，曾负责运营追踪美国标准普尔指数的ETF产品，资产估值达2亿美元，他同时还为纳斯达克网站撰写每月ETF专栏。

A magisterial work of gripping history, City of Fortune tells the story of the Venetian ascent from lagoon dwellers to the greatest power in the Mediterranean - an epic five hundred year voyage that encompassed crusade and trade, plague, sea battles and colonial adventure. In Venice, the path to empire unfolded in a series of extraordinary contests - the sacking of Constantinop...(展开全部)