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)

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)

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)

Grassroots journalists are dismantling Big Media's monopoly on the news, transforming it from a lecture to a conversation. Not content to accept the news as reported, these readers-turned-reporters are publishing in real time to a worldwide audience via the Internet. The impact of their work is just beginning to be felt by professional journalists and the newsmakers they cover....(展开全部)

著者简介 卡斯滕·延森（Carsten Jensen，1952— ），丹麦当代著名作家、评论家。其作品《我看过世界的开始》获得丹麦书商奖（1996年）。2006年，其取材自家乡马斯塔尔镇的长篇史诗作品《我们，被淹没的》出版，荣获有“丹麦布克奖”之称的丹斯克银行文学奖，旋即被视为北欧当代文学经典，已售出20国版权，全球销量超过60万册。 译者简介 陈磊， 译者，译作有《树语》《回家之路》等。

Grassroots journalists are dismantling Big Media's monopoly on the news, transforming it from a lecture to a conversation. Not content to accept the news as reported, these readers-turned-reporters are publishing in real time to a worldwide audience via the Internet. The impact of their work is just beginning to be felt by professional journalists and the newsmakers they cover....(展开全部)

贾斯廷•托雷斯（Justin Torres） 美国小说家。在纽约州北部长大，父亲为波多黎各裔，母亲为爱尔兰和意大利混血。曾在《纽约客》《格兰塔》《卫报》和《华盛顿邮报》等重要刊物上发表作品。他从爱荷华写作坊毕业后，获得美国艺术家协会罗隆文学基金，随后又获得斯坦福大学华莱士•斯特格纳奖金和国家艺术基金会基金。2012年被美国国家图书基金会评选为“5位35岁以下杰出作家”之一。他曾做过农场工人、遛狗师、创意写作老师和书店店员等多种工作。