◎ 1985****年《美國遺產》評選「十本構成美國人性格的書」◎ 1999年美國大學生票選最佳偶像人物──****梭羅高居榜首◎ 與《聖經》一同入選美國國會圖書館「塑造讀者的二十五本書」二十八歲時，梭羅借了一柄斧頭，孤身一人，走進瓦爾登湖邊山林，搭起小木屋，開荒種地，寫作看書，獨居兩年兩個月又兩天。此後歷時七年七易其稿，將這段獨居生活的所見、所聞、所思，寫成自傳體散文集《湖濱散記》。本書在展示自然萬物之美的同時，也展示了一種物質上簡樸至極、精神豐盈充實的生活方式，被全球讀者譽為「自我修行的心靈聖經」。閱讀本書，您將感受到寧靜的巨大力量，並找到自己心中的華爾騰湖。《湖濱散記》中，有大量篇幅關於動物、植物和自然環境的觀察記錄。梭羅在這裡花費了大量精力觀察湖水和樹木的變化，鳥類、動物的習性，有時還深...

What waits for you in the water's darkness? Something beautiful, something deadly - or perhaps both? And what happens when those unknown horrors rise to the surface?With Sand, Salt, Blood, editor Elle Turpitt has brought together twenty short stories & poems which explore the mysterious depths of the ocean and what lurks beneath the waves. From warrior witches to disastrous cruises, intimidating theme park rides to shipwrecks, sharks, sirens and more, this anthology will m...

Playful Wisdom examines how Henry David Thoreau’s thinking about religious “play” created a theological legacy in American literature—one that includes Emily Dickinson, Jack Kerouac, Thomas Merton, Annie Dillard, and Marilynne Robinson. Although these writers differ in many ways, they share with Thoreau an improvisational “looseness” or “mobility” in their thinking about the sacred, a sense that religious experience unsettles fixed belief and alters the very shape of the perceiving self. F...