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简介：　　For the first time, the enthralling history of one of the world's greatest sporting spectacles is told by its leading players--Jackie Stewart, Michael Schumacher, Juan Pablo Montoya, Ayrton Senna, and many others--the Formula 1 drivers, team bosses, designers, pit crews, journalists, spouses, lovers, camp followers, and fans. A beautifully illustrated and hugely ambitious project, assembled by a group of top journalists who have all covered the sport for years, this compendium is packed with action photography. Often controversial viewpoints come directly from those who act out the life-and-death dramas on the road. The chronicle starts with the grainy photos and rare memoirs of pioneering days a century ago, using the words of the men who began it all, such as Karl Benz and Sir Henry Segrave. Year by year, event by thrilling event, follow the innovations in car technology and racing technique to today's high-tech, high-finance, high-danger game; where grime and glitz, pain and passion are a way of life. The photo cavalcade puts you into the driver's seat in fiery crashes and finish-line celebrations. Rare behind-the-scenes sessions and a collector-quality gallery of the most famous driving machines of all time are part of the excitement. 　　

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简介： Lionel Casson's encyclopedic study is the first of its kind to use underwater archaeological data to refine and area of scholarship that had, for the most part, relied on ancient texts and graphic representations. Tracing the history of early ships and seamanship from pre-dynastic Egypt to the Roman empire, from skiffs and barges to huge oared warships and royal yachts, Casson describes not only the ships themselves, but also the make-up and training of the crews, placement of weaponry, how cargo was stored, methods of navigation, harbor facilities, and the ways ships were named.

Ship Breaker 《拆船者》 ISBN9780316056199

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简介：　　A gritty, high-stakes adventure set in a futuristic world where oil is scarce, but loyalty is scarcer. 　　 　　In America's Gulf Coast region, grounded oil tankers are being broken down for parts by crews of young people. Nailer, a teenage boy, works the light crew, scavenging for copper wiring just to make quota-and hopefully live to see another day. But when, by luck or by chance, he discovers an exquisite clipper ship beached during a recent hurricane, Nailer faces the most important decision of his life: Strip the ship for all it's worth or rescue its lone survivor, a beautiful and wealthy girl who could lead him to a better life.... 　　 　　In this powerful novel, Paolo Bacigalupi delivers a thrilling, fast-paced adventure set in a vivid and raw, uncertain future.　　

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简介：To the Stars is set in an uncertain, strife-torn future when the first starships of man are traveling across the galaxy but not without extracting a terrible price from their crews. The novel's thought-provoking opening line, "Space is deep, Man is small and Time is his relentless enemy", powerfully captures the challenges facing the brave men and women of these vessels people who must give up their former lives to explore space as entire generations and whole societies come and go on Earth, while those aboard remain essentially untouched by the passage of time in a vessel traveling at nearly the speed of light. This immersing, remarkably ruthless drama begins when Alan Corday, a naively unseasoned but brilliant young engineer, is shanghaied from the spaceport at New Chicago and taken aboard the Hound of Heaven bound for the stars. Commanded by a distantly mysterious but charismatic leader by the name of Captain Jocelyn, the Hound traverses the galaxy in an effort to keep open a lifeline between Earth and the first colonies in other star systems. But in the time span of a few crossings, conditions on Earth grow gradually worse and more dangerous, while those aboard are treated increasingly as outcasts and a threat to the powers that control the planet. Against his will, Corday is mercilessly driven by Jocelyn to use his untested intellect and abilities to serve the ship and the beleaguered space colonies. But as events unfold among the turbulent reaches of the galaxy, and during the perilous returns to Earth, Corday discovers a startling truth about his destiny that will give a whole new meaning to man's place in the stars.

Trafalgar B 英文原版

作者：  Adkins

出版社：Little Brown 2005年05月

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This is the true story of the Battle of Trafalgar, Britain'smost significant sea battle, as seen through the smoke-hazedgunports of the fighting ships. In an atmosphere of choking fumesfrom cannon and musket fire, amid noise so intense it was almosttangible, the crews of the British, French and Spanish ships didtheir best to carry out their allotted tasks. For over five hoursthey were in constant danger from a terrifying array of iron andlead missiles fired from enemy guns, as well as the deadly woodensplinters smashed from the ships' hulls by the cannon-balls. Whilethe men manoeuvred the ships and kept the cannons firing, the womenhelped the surgeons tend the sick or helped the boys - the 'powdermonkeys' - in the hazardous job of carrying gunpowder cartridgesfrom the central magazine to the gun decks. Trafalgar set the sealon British naval supremacy, which became the mainspring for thegrowth of the British Empire, and in the short term not onlyprevented Napoleon from invading Britain, but also enabled Britainand its Continental allies to mount the campaign that wouldeventually defeat the French Emperor: without Trafalgar there wouldbe no Waterloo.

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The blazing TRAFALGAR is at least the equal of STALINGRAD inblood, pace and detail, but it also boasts a welcome twist to thegenre with a lacing of black humour INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY Masterfulin explaining why Nelson's men were so much more efficient ...Adkins has written a compelling account MAIL ON SUNDAY Well-writtenand makes good use of first-hand accounts LITERARY REVIEW[Adkins's] painstaking digging, sifting, arranging and questioningtake him everywhere on Nelson's fleet ... His account of the battleis a gripping album of snapshots from the quarterdecks and gundecks of the ships themselves ... A most eclectic but engagiSPECTATOR

Shortcut 近路 ISBN9780688135768

作者：  Crews

出版社：HarperCollins 1997年03月

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