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。
发表于2024-12-22
A Short History of Nearly Everything 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
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《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...
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...
评分生命是个奇迹,这或许不需要看过布莱森的《万物简史》才知道,构成每个人身体的原子,有可能有重叠的来源,不论是男女,不论是白人黑人,不论是亲戚,不论是敌人。从这一点上来说,生命真的是非常平等,平等得所有的构成都是几乎一模一样。从原子的角度来说,生不带来死不带走...
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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.
有意思,任何人都能看看
评分这个作者太神奇了,居然科普书都能写,才刚开个头,讲的的确是很贴近生活啊
评分说实话,虽然写的非常好,但是越读越不喜欢
评分the stories of science and scientists are EXTRAORDINARY!
评分有意思,任何人都能看看
A Short History of Nearly Everything 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书