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。
Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller: but even when he stays safely in his own study at home, he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to find out everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us. Bill Bryson's challenge is to take subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us, like geology, chemistry and particle physics, and see if there isn't some way to render them comprehensible to people who have never thought they could be interested in science. It's not so much about what we know, as about how we know what we know. How do we know what is in the centre of the Earth, or what a black hole is, or where the continents were 600 million years ago? How did anyone ever figure these things out? On his travels through time and space, he encounters a splendid collection of astonishingly eccentric, competitive, obsessive and foolish scientists, like the painfully shy Henry Cavendish who worked out many conundrums like how much the Earth weighed, but never bothered to tell anybody about many of his findings. In the company of such extraordinary people, Bill Bryson takes us with him on the ultimate eye-opening journey, and reveals the world in a way most of us have never seen it before.
我一辈子也做不了科技工作者,因为喜读科普书籍远胜于读学术论文,这表明我虽有相信科学的愿望,却缺乏探索科学的勇气。 但是也没什么不好。科技这东西是双刃剑,不定什么时候就砍到自己了。 科普就不一样,它给人的是思想的启迪。也许更多的还是读故事的乐趣。小的时候喜欢...
评分这辈子只读完过两本正式点儿的科普读物,好像女孩子看这类的书很有些障碍。第一本是初中的时候看的《物理五千年》,第二本就是《万物简史》。相比之下五千年的物理发展介绍,只是让我高中物理课比较好过而已,而大爆炸以来的地球是怎样舞蹈的,却是更令人兴奋。 不排除8g的劣...
评分当我从地摊上十元钱买回这本书时,苍天在上,我是把它当作一本严肃认真的科普读物来洗涤我不正经的灵魂。买回来以后,我对我的灵魂有点舍不得就把这本书随手一丢积了两个礼拜灰——其实具体时间我也记不得,总之我是到后来擦灰的时候才发现我曾经拥有的美好愿望,然后抱着羞愧...
评分After reading the book, I know why Bill Bryson is called "English Master". He easily combines so many things into one book. Following his guidance, you travel from cosmos to human life without any abruptness. The transition from this scientist to that artis...
评分最喜欢的是作者提供的科学史上的轶事: 灵机一现却又被无情埋没、 才华横溢却被“专家”压制、 刻苦专研,结果终生籍籍无名、 天才、古怪、孤僻、意外,是科学史上常用词 另外一个,很喜欢作者的主线: 为解决地球在哪里、从哪里来的问题,有了天文学 为解决地球经度的问题,...
很多科学史的八卦,超级八卦,包括“居里夫人变成寡妇后就很淫乱”之类……不过让旅游作家写科普,大概也只能在八卦上搞搞新意思。
评分有意思,任何人都能看看
评分没空读-惭愧的说,但大三的时候还是把它的有声读物完整英文版听完了,Bill Bryson 的幽默是出名的,这本也不例外,还能将科普类讲的惟妙惟肖。他还有一本Neither Here Nor There 也很不错。
评分很多科学史的八卦,超级八卦,包括“居里夫人变成寡妇后就很淫乱”之类……不过让旅游作家写科普,大概也只能在八卦上搞搞新意思。
评分没空读-惭愧的说,但大三的时候还是把它的有声读物完整英文版听完了,Bill Bryson 的幽默是出名的,这本也不例外,还能将科普类讲的惟妙惟肖。他还有一本Neither Here Nor There 也很不错。
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