Following "Rivers of Gold" and "The Golden Empire "and" "building on five centuries of scholarship, "World Without End "is the epic conclusion of an unprecedented three-volume history of the Spanish Empire from one of the most productive and wide-ranging historians of modern times ("The New York Times Book Review"). The legacy of imperial Spain was shaped by many hands. But the...(展开全部)

Following "Rivers of Gold" and "The Golden Empire "and" "building on five centuries of scholarship, "World Without End "is the epic conclusion of an unprecedented three-volume history of the Spanish Empire from one of the most productive and wide-ranging historians of modern times ("The New York Times Book Review"). The legacy of imperial Spain was shaped by many hands. But the...(展开全部)

休•托马斯 Hugh Thomas 英国历史学家，毕业于剑桥大学王后学院和索邦大学。著有多部历史类专著，包括《西班牙内战》《苏伊士运河事件》《未完成的世界史》《武装对峙》《征服：蒙特祖玛、科尔特斯与旧墨西哥的陨落》《奴隶贸易》以及“西班牙三部曲”（《黄金之河》《黄金时代》《无止境的世界》）等，其中《西班牙内战》获“毛姆文学奖”。1966至1976年在英国雷丁大学任教；1979至1991年在伦敦政策研究中心担任首席官员；2008年被授予艺术与文学勋章（法国政府文化部设立），并获“加巴龙奖”；2009年荣获“卡沃尔•谢列尔奖”“薄伽丘奖”及意大利“诺尼诺文学奖”。1981年，托马斯被授予终身贵族身份，成为斯温纳顿的托马斯勋爵。

休•托马斯 Hugh Thomas 英国历史学家，毕业于剑桥大学王后学院和索邦大学。著有多部历史类专著，包括《西班牙内战》《苏伊士运河事件》《未完成的世界史》《武装对峙》《征服：蒙特祖玛、科尔特斯与旧墨西哥的陨落》《奴隶贸易》以及“西班牙三部曲”（《黄金之河》《黄金时代》《无止境的世界》）等，其中《西班牙内战》获“毛姆文学奖”。1966至1976年在英国雷丁大学任教；1979至1991年在伦敦政策研究中心担任首席官员；2008年被授予艺术与文学勋章（法国政府文化部设立），并获“加巴龙奖”；2009年荣获“卡沃尔•谢列尔奖”“薄伽丘奖”及意大利“诺尼诺文学奖”。1981年，托马斯被授予终身贵族身份，成为斯温纳顿的托马斯勋爵。

Ken Follett has 90 million readers worldwide. The Pillars of the Earth is his bestselling book of all time. Now, eighteen years after the publication of The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett has written the most-anticipated sequel of the year, World Without End. In 1989 Ken Follett astonished the literary world with The Pillars of the Earth, a sweeping epic novel set in twelf...(展开全部)

Ken Follett has 90 million readers worldwide. The Pillars of the Earth is his bestselling book of all time. Now, eighteen years after the publication of The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett has written the most anticipated sequel of the year-World Without End.

Ken Follett has 90 million readers worldwide. The Pillars of the Earth is his bestselling book of all time. Now, eighteen years after the publication of The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett has written the most anticipated sequel of the year-World Without End.

Ken Follett has 90 million readers worldwide. The Pillars of the Earth is his bestselling book of all time. Now, eighteen years after the publication of The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett has written the most-anticipated sequel of the year, World Without End. In 1989 Ken Follett astonished the literary world with The Pillars of the Earth, a sweeping epic novel set in twelf...(展开全部)

As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten. But Portugal's navigators cracked the code of the Atlantic winds, launched the expedition of Vasco da Gama to India and beat the Spanish to the spice kingdoms of the East - then set about creating the first long-range maritime empire. In an astonishing blit...(展开全部)

‘The sea without end is Portuguese.’ Fernando Pessoa In 1497, Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope and became the first European to sail to India. This feat came off the back of sixty years of coherent effort by the Portuguese to find a way out of the Atlantic Ocean. Then they set about conquering the world. As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the...(展开全部)