比尔·布莱森,享誉世界的旅游文学作家。1951年出生于美国艾奥瓦州,毕业于美国德雷克大学。从1973年起,曾在英国居住20年之久,任职于《泰晤士报》与《独立报》,同时也为《纽约时报》、《国家地理杂志》等刊物撰文。后搬回美国,现与妻子和四个小孩居住于新罕布什尔州的汉诺威市。
布莱森擅长用不同的眼光来看待他所游历的世界,在他的书里,英国式的睿智幽默与美国式的搞笑绝妙地融合在了一起。他的尖刻加上他的博学,让他的文字充满了幽默、机敏和智慧,使他自己成为“目前活在世上的最有趣的旅游文学作家”(《泰晤士报》)。
代表作有《哈!小不列颠》、《欧洲在发酵》、《一脚踩进小美国》、《别跟山过不去》、《请问这里是美国吗?》等多种,每本均高居美、英、加畅销书排行榜前列。其中《哈!小不列颠》更被英国读者推选为“最能深刻传达出英国灵魂的作品”。
作者不但才华横溢,兴趣亦十分广泛,在语言学方面著有《麻烦词汇词典》、《母语》、《美式英语》等书,皆为拥有广大拥趸的幽默之作。
One of the world’s most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey -- into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.
In A Walk in the Woods , Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail -- well, most of it. In In A Sunburned Country , he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to offer. Now, in his biggest book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to understand -- and, if possible, answer -- the oldest, biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves. Taking as territory everything from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization, Bryson seeks to understand how we got from there being nothing at all to there being us. To that end, he has attached himself to a host of the world’s most advanced (and often obsessed) archaeologists, anthropologists, and mathematicians, travelling to their offices, laboratories, and field camps. He has read (or tried to read) their books, pestered them with questions, apprenticed himself to their powerful minds. A Short History of Nearly Everything is the record of this quest, and it is a sometimes profound, sometimes funny, and always supremely clear and entertaining adventure in the realms of human knowledge, as only Bill Bryson can render it. Science has never been more involving or entertaining.
From the Hardcover edition.
这是本博学的书。布莱森驾轻就熟,轻松幽默的给我们介绍了宇宙、地球、微观世界、自然环境、生命、人类以及人类和环境的关系等方面的知识。一个人所应该知道的自然史方面的知识基本上都在这里了,所以才无怪乎叫做《万物简史》。 读者可能会意识到,所有的这些知识,几乎全都...
评分《万物简史》,我看完后一直觉得欠了笔账,应该写点什么才对的起作者,但苦于文笔拙劣,实在整理不出头绪来。今天看了大作标题,心中一阵兴奋,觉得可以搁笔了。看完后,又觉得还有意犹未尽之感,不避孤陋顺便发点意见。 我之喜欢该书,和小鱼同志相反,是看到作者本人的...
评分注:前评论者为http://www.douban.com/review/1015059/上发表观点的众多前辈们。 一、意译神译? 首先从译本的名字说起。“万物简史”是很精简的翻译,可以看出译者的文字功底。可它却远远不能够被称得上是准确的翻译,因为最重要的nearly就这么被轻描淡写的丢掉了。也许译...
评分一 其实我们从小到大,一直都会讨论这个问题:我从哪里来?人类从哪里来?世界从哪里来?地球从哪里来?宇宙从哪里来? 这个认知的过程,是从小到大、由己及物的,向来以自己为中心,扩散出去,逐渐认识整个世界。 而《万物简史》这本书,是从大到小,从宇宙是什么说起,再...
评分《万物简史》中文版翻译质量怎么这么差 阮一峰 作者: (美)布莱森 译者: 严维明/陈邕 isbn: 7806797548 页数: 438 定价: 36.80 装帧: 平装 出版年: 2005-2-1 出版社: 接力出版社 《万物简史》(A Short History Of Nearly Everything)是一本难得的科普佳作。“本书...
It is very rare for me to read the same book twice. Love it so much and hope it can help with my teaching. 温故知新 依旧爱不释手
评分格物致知 不可不读 读后回味无穷。这本书和早期的Asimov非小说类的科普散文有相同之处。
评分宇宙物理讲的最好。恐龙地理岩石很无聊。科学家轶事过多..少数有意思
评分读着太累了
评分It is very rare for me to read the same book twice. Love it so much and hope it can help with my teaching. 温故知新 依旧爱不释手
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