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苦行記
說起 Samuel Langhorne Clemens(1835-1910),讀者或許更熟悉他的筆名「馬克·吐溫」?1861年他離開家鄉密蘇里州,前往內華達領地投靠剛就任領地秘書的哥哥,安頓後忍不住嚐了嚐淘金熱的滋味,跑到洪堡礦區碰運氣;等挖礦的樂趣消退,他轉而到維吉尼亞城擔任記者,1864年又搬到加州舊金山繼續新聞工作,也在這片土地上逐漸建立起全國知名的幽默作家聲譽。
而他記錄這段遠西部冒險經歷的作品《艱苦歲月》(*Roughing…
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Wild Wales
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California and Oregon trail
Presents accounts of a young man's travels on the Oregon Trail and his sojourn with the Oglala Indians.
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Pictures from Italy
From the book:If the readers of this volume will be so kind as to take their credentials for the different places which are the subject of its author's reminiscences, from the Author himself, perhaps they may visit them, in fancy, the more agreeably, and with a better understanding of what they are to expect. Many books have been written upon Italy, affording many means of studying the history of…
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在康科德与梅里马克河上一周
翻開《梭羅首部作品》,你將隨他走進旅途周遭的自然天地。這位作家最擅長的,便是用細膩而詩意的文字描繪所見風景,將草木光影化為動人的篇章。沒有華麗的辭藻堆疊,唯有真摯的觀察與書寫——這正是這部作品最令人著迷之處。
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