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开 本: 大32开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9787513505956丛书名: 大师经典文库
《大师经典文库:房龙地理(英文原版)》从历史的高度阐释了人与地理以及地球的关系，是一本阅读价值极高的人文地理学入门级读物。房龙在此书中贯穿了其惯有的行文风格，用诙谐幽默的文字化枯燥的地理知识于无形，使人在轻松愉快之际不仅领略把握了人类厚重历史发展的来龙去脉，且能在掩卷之际获得不少启发。房龙写作本书的目的，就是要让读者了解人文地理这门学科，正如他自己曾说过的，“我试着为普通读者和孩子们写书，以便他们学到这个世界的历史、地理和艺术。”
《大师经典文库》系列包括世界著名的思想家、哲学家、历史学家和心理学家的经典学术专著，以及我国古代哲学典籍的权威英译本，为广大英语学习者提供了高质量的阅读文本，也是各类社会科学研究工作者必备的学术资料。
《房龙地理》房龙对于世界地理的解读，不仅限于讨论地球的自然特征，他没有罗列枯燥的数字，没有堆砌深奥的名词，而是把人作为重点，来探究人的生存命运，试图寻找到人类幸福的共通之路。房龙用文学手法赋予知识以灵性，把自然地理的规律和人文的千姿百态展现在读者面前。
Chapter 1. And These Are the People Who Live in the World We Live in Chapter 2. A Definition of the Word Geography Chapter 3. Our Planet Chapter 4. Maps Chapter 5. The Seasons and How They Happen Chapter 6. Concerning the Little Spots of Dry Land on This Planet Chapter 7. Of the Discovery of Europe Chapter 8. Greece Chapter 9. Italy Chapter 10. Spain Chapter 11. France Chapter 12. Belgium Chapter 13. Luxemburg Chapter 14: Switzerland Chapter 15. Germany Chapter 16. Austria Chapter 17. Denmark Chapter 18. Iceland Chapter 19. The Scandinavian Peninsula Chapter 20. The Netherlands Chapter 21. Great Britain Chapter 22. Russia Chapter 23. Poland Chapter 24. Czechoslovakia Chapter 25. Yugoslavia Chapter 26. Bulgaria Chapter 27. Roumania Chapter 28. Hungary Chapter 29. Finland Chapter 30. The Discovery of Asia Chapter 31. What Asia Has Meant to the Rest of the World Chapter 32. The Central Asiatic Highlands Chapter 33. The Great Western Plateau of Asia Chapter 34. Arabia Chapter 35. India Chapter 36. Burma, Siam, Anam and Malacca Chapter 37. The Republic of China Chapter 38. Korea, Mongolia and Manchuria Chapter 39. The Japanese Empire Chapter 40. The Philippines Chapter 41. The Dutch East Indies Chapter 42. Australia Chapter 43. New Zealand Chapter 44. The Islands of the Pacific Chapter 45. Africa Chapter 46. America Chapter 47. A New World
Today’s interest however in Persia is of a more prosaic
nature.The country has oil, and that is about the worst thing that
could possibly happen to a nation too weak to defend its own
interests.Theoretically speaking, the natives of any given place
are supposed to be the chief beneficiaries of the treasures that
lie hidden beneath their ancestral grave-yards. In practice it
works out differently. A few of the Sultan’s intimate friends in
far away Teheran grow rich from granting concessions, and several
thousand men and women living near the wells may find occasional
employment at pretty meagre wages. But the rest goes to the foreign
investor who thinks Persia is the name of a rug.
Unfortunately, Persia seems to be one of those countries
which will always be poor and badly administered. Its geographical
location is very little of a blessing and very much of a curse. It
is a desert, but when a desert is situated on the main road, which
in turn is part of a land bridge connecting two of the most
important parts of the world,then that desert will forever be a
battlefield and a bone of contention between opposing interests.
And what I have just said of Persia holds true of this entire
western part of Asia.
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