BECAUSE IT'S THERE.George Herbert Leigh Mallory is said to have given this in reply to the question Why do you want to climb Mount Everest? On his third expedition in June 1924, Mallory and his climbing partner, Andrew Irvine, disappeared on the North-East ridge during their ascent, having been sighted only a few hundred meters from the summit. In 1993, in a small Nepalese stor...(展开全部)

First published in Vienna in 1937, this classic story of romance and adventure has been compared to Dr. Zhivago and Romeo and Juliet . Its mysterious author was recently the subject of a feature article in the New Yorker , which has inspired a forthcoming biography. Out of print for nearly three decades until the hardcover re-release last year, Ali and Nino is Kurban Said...(展开全部)

库尔班·赛义德（1905-1937），原名列夫·努辛鲍姆，化名艾萨德贝伊。犹太商人之子，生于高加索的阿塞拜疆。少年时代迁居德国。主要著作有《阿里与妮诺》、《尼古拉二世传》、《穆罕默德传》、《东方的鲜血与石油》、《高加索：山峦、民族与历史》等。 译者简介 杨德友，山西大学外语学院教授，北京市人。1956年入北京外国语大学波兰语专业，1957年转学到太原山西大学英语专业，1961年毕业留校工作至今。主要译著有《俾斯麦回忆录》（第一卷）、《福地》、《巴尔扎克的婚事》、《论基督徒》、《理解俄国》、《历代耶酥形象》等。

Ali Khan and Nino Kipiani live in the oil-rich capital of Azerbaijan at the beginning of World War I. Despite their religious and cultural differences they have loved each other since childhood, but their own tolerence does not protect them from others.

Combining accounts of legendary mountain ascents with vivid descriptions of his own forays into wild, high landscapes, Robert McFarlane reveals how the mystery of the world’s highest places has came to grip the Western imagination—and perennially draws legions of adventurers up the most perilous slopes. His story begins three centuries ago, when mountains were feared as the for...(展开全部)

Combining accounts of legendary mountain ascents with vivid descriptions of his own forays into wild, high landscapes, Robert McFarlane reveals how the mystery of the world’s highest places has came to grip the Western imagination—and perennially draws legions of adventurers up the most perilous slopes. His story begins three centuries ago, when mountains were feared as the for...(展开全部)

This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides -- or are ...(展开全部)