出版时间:2009-11 出版社:世界图书出版公司 作者:房龙 页数:536
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前言
世界文学名著表现了作者描述的特定时代的文化。阅读这些名著可以领略著者流畅的文笔、逼真的描述、详细的刻画,让读者如同置身当时的历史文化之中。为此,我们将这套精心编辑的“名著典藏”奉献给广大读者。 我们找来了专门研究西方历史、西方文化的专家学者,请教了专业的翻译人员,精心挑选了这些可以代表西方文学的著作,并听取了一些国外专门。研究文学的朋友的建议,不删节、不做任何人为改动,严格按照原著的风格,提供原汁原味的西方名著,让读者能享受纯正的英文名著。 随着阅读的展开,你会发现自己的英语水平无形中有了大幅提高,并且对西方历史文化的了解也日益深入广阔。 送您一套经典,让您受益永远!
内容概要
房龙对于世界地理的解读,不仅限于讨论地球的自然特征,他没有罗列枯燥的数字,没有堆砌深奥的名词,而是把人作为重点,来探究人的生存命运,试图寻找到人类幸福的共通之路。房龙用文学手法赋予知识以灵性,把自然地理的规律和人文地千姿百态展现在读者面前。
书籍目录
1.And These Are the People Who Live in the World We Live in2.A Definition of the Word Geography3.Our Planet4.Maps5.The Seasons and How They Happen6.Concerning the Little Spots of Dry Land on This Planet7.Of the Discovery of Europe8.Greece9.Italy10.Spain11.France12.Belgium13.Luxemburg14.Switzerland15.Germany16.Austria17.Denmark18.Iceland19.The Scandinavian Peninsula20.The Netherlands21.Great Britain22.Russia23.Poland24.Czechoslovakia25.Yugoslavia26.Bulgaria27.Roumania28.Hungary29.Finland30.The Discovery of Asia31.What Asia Has Meant to the Rest of the World32.The Central Asiatic Highlands33.The Great Western Plateau of Asia34.Arabia35.India36.Burma, Siam, Anam and Malacca37.The Republic of China38.Korea, Mongolia and Manchuria39.The Japanese Empire40.The Philippines41.The Dutch East Indies42.Australia43.New Zealand44.The Islands of the Pacific45.Africa46.America47.A New World
章节摘录
1. And These Are the People Who Live in the World We Live in IT sounds incredible, but nevertheless it is true. If everybody in this world of ours were six feet tall and a foot and a half wide and a foot thick (and that is making people a little bigger than they usually are), then the whole of the human race (and according to the latest available statistics, there are now nearly 2,000,000,000 descendants of the original Homo sapiens and his wife) could be packed into a box measuring half a mile in each direction. That, as I just said, sounds incredible, but if you dont believe me figure it Out for yourself and you will find it to be correct. If we transported that box to the Grand Canyon of Arizona and balanced it neatly on the low stone wall that keeps people from breaking their necks when stunned by the incredible beauty of that silent witness of the forces of Eternity and then called little Noodle, the dachshund and told him (the tiny beast is very intelligent and loves to oblige) to give tile unwieldy contraption a slight push with his soft brown nose, there would be a moment of crunching and ripping as the wooden planks loosened stones and shrubs and trees on their downward path and then a low and even softer bumpity-bumpity-bump and a sudden splash when the outer edges struck the banks of the Colorado River. Then silence and oblivion. The human sardines in their mortuary chest would soon be forgotten. The Canyon would go on battling wind and air and sun and rain as it has done since it was created. ……
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