This is probably the first large-scale photographic essay dedicated to the Asian continent's natural wonders. The 44 regions this handsome volume explores-some famous, some almost unknown, all extensively narrated and gorgeously illustrated-are Asia's calling card; it is a continent that still preserves huge expanse of pristine nature and amazing biodiversity hotspots. Their s...(展开全部)

An Orange Prize Finalist A Man Booker Prize Nominee Winner of the 2009 Betty Trask Prize A Guardian First Book Award Nominee Jake is in the tailspin of old age. His wife has passed away, his son is in prison, and now he is about to lose his past to Alzheimer’s. As the disease takes hold of him, Jake’s memories become increasingly unreliable. What happened to his daughter? Is...(展开全部)

萨曼莎•哈维1975年出生于英国。曾旅居爱尔兰、新西兰与日本，从事写作与教学工作。现居英国巴斯，除了文学创作，还参与环保慈善事业。 《荒野》是作者的第一本长篇小说。本书甫一出版就受到了广泛关注，成为2008年伦敦书展重点书，继而成为2009橘子文学奖决赛入围作品，2009年布克奖初赛入围作品，并获得了贝蒂特拉斯克处女作文学奖。书评家将她誉为21世纪的“弗吉尼亚•伍尔夫”。《哈泼时尚》杂志将作者评选为2009年最值得关注的三位女性之一，她也是该杂志邀请专访并将其照片作为春季版特刊的唯一一位作家。

A leathery bog-man transforms an old love affair; a sweet, gruesome gift is sent by the wife of an ex-lover; landscape paintings are haunted by the ghost of a young girl. This dazzling collection of ten short stories takes us into familiar Atwood territory to reveal the logic of irrational behaviour and the many textures lying beneath ordinary life.

In each of these tales Margaret Atwood deftly illuminates the single instant that shapes a whole life: in a few brief pages we watch as characters progress from the vulnerabilities of adolescence through the passions of youth into the precarious complexities of middle age.By superimposing the past on the present, Atwood paints interior landscapes shaped by time, regret, and lif...(展开全部)

This concise, updated edition of the award-winning "A Guide to the Birds of Southeast Asia" (Princeton, 2000) is the most comprehensive, compact guide to this magnificent bird-rich region. It is a complete field and reference guide to the birds of Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia. It also covers a wide range of species found in the ...(展开全部)

马克·布拉齐尔（Mark Brazil）， 苏格兰斯特灵大学博士，经验丰富的野外鸟类学家。著有《东亚鸟类野外手册》（Birds of East Asia），以及《日本观鸟指南》（ A Birdwatcher's Guide to Japan）、《日本鸟类》（The Birds of Japan）和《大天鹅》（The Whooper Swan）等。

Deep anxieties about the potential loss of national identity and continuity disturb many in Japan, despite widespread insistence that it has remained culturally intact. In this conjoining of ethnography, history and cultural criticism, Marilyn Ivy discloses these anxieties, as she tracks what she calls the vanishing: marginalized events, sites and cultural practices suspended a...(展开全部)

he City and the Wilderness recounts the journeys and micro-histories of Indo-Persian travelers across the Indian Ocean and their encounters with the Burmese Kingdom and its littoral at the turn of the nineteenth century. As Mughal sovereignty waned under British colonial rule, Indo-Persian travelers and intermediaries linked to the East India Company explored and surveyed the B...(展开全部)

A land of enormous proportions, countless secrets, and incredible history, Central Asia was the heart of the great Mongol empire of Tamerlane and scene of Stalin's cruelest deportations. A remote and fascinating region in a constant state of transition—never more so than since the collapse of the Soviet Union—it encompasses terrain as diverse as the Kazakh steppes, the Karakum ...(展开全部)