Father Walter Ciszek, S.J., author of the best-selling He Leadeth Me, tells here the gripping, astounding story of his twenty-three years in Russian prison camps in Siberia, how he was falsely imprisoned as an "American spy", the incredible rigors of daily life as a prisoner, and his extraordinary faith in God and commitment to his priestly vows and vocation. He said Mass under...(展开全部)

WALTER J. CISZEK, SJ, (1904–1984), a native of Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, was an American Jesuit missionary priest who spent twenty-three years in the Soviet Union before and during the Cold War.

Father Walter Ciszek, S.J., author of the best-selling He Leadeth Me, tells here the gripping, astounding story of his twenty-three years in Russian prison camps in Siberia, how he was falsely imprisoned as an "American spy", the incredible rigors of daily life as a prisoner, and his extraordinary faith in God and commitment to his priestly vows and vocation. He said Mass under...(展开全部)

河口慧海，日本僧人，为求取西藏保存的佛教未传之经典，1897至1903年进入西藏，归国后将这趟旅程的见闻悉数记录成文，以《西藏旅行记》为题在报刊上连载，英译本《西藏三年》（Three Years in Tibet）也于1909年在印度出版后，获得民众热烈回响，风靡一时。

河口慧海，日本僧人，为求取西藏保存的佛教未传之经典，1897至1903年进入西藏，归国后将这趟旅程的见闻悉数记录成文，以《西藏旅行记》为题在报刊上连载，英译本《西藏三年》（Three Years in Tibet）也于1909年在印度出版后，获得民众热烈回响，风靡一时。

Editorial Reviews Review "...a splendid work, a breathtaking synthesis that is at once erudite and accessible, illuminating and a pleasure to read." Daniel J. Kevles "Loren Graham's informative history...leaves one wondering how science could function at all....The remaining, very open, question is: How well will a newly freed Russian science survive the removal of the Soviet h...(展开全部)

By the 1980s the Soviet scientific establishment had become the largest in the world, but very little of its history was known in the West. What has been needed for many years in order to fill that gap in our knowledge is a history of Russian and Soviet science written for the educated person who would like to read one book on the subject. This book has been written for that re...(展开全部)

8 pp. illustrations, 1 folded map. This book describes the travels undertaken by Alexander Hosie during his tenure as a British consular agent in Chungkiung, from 1882–1884. At the time this was the most important city in Szechuan Province, W. China; situated on the Yangtze River, 1, 500 miles inland from its mouth, it was seen as the potential nexus for trade, giving access in...(展开全部)

8 pp. illustrations, 1 folded map. This book describes the travels undertaken by Alexander Hosie during his tenure as a British consular agent in Chungkiung, from 1882–1884. At the time this was the most important city in Szechuan Province, W. China; situated on the Yangtze River, 1, 500 miles inland from its mouth, it was seen as the potential nexus for trade, giving access in...(展开全部)

安德鲁斯（1884～1960）是20世纪最著名的探险家、博物学家之一，以对中国、蒙古等地的科考探险以及首次发现恐龙蛋化石而知名，他一生撰写了大量探险、恐龙及古人类学方面的通俗著作，在普通读者中大众欢迎，有许多人甚至认为他头戴牛仔帽、腰挎左轮手枪的形象就是好莱坞著名的电影人物——印第安纳·琼斯的原型。