房龍地理·太平洋的故事

《房龍地理·太平洋的故事》是一本(美國)亨德里克·威廉·房龍 (Hendrik Willem Van Loon)編寫，由中國城市出版社在2009年出版的書籍。

基本介紹

• 書名：房龍地理·太平洋的故事
• 頁數：436頁
• 出版社：中國城市出版社
• 裝幀：平裝

圖書信息

出版社: 中國城市出版社; 第1版 (2009年1月1日)

外文書名: VAN LOON'S GEOGRAPHY THE STORY OF THE PACIFIC

叢書名: 房龍經典·英文原版

平裝: 436頁

正文語種: 英語

開本: 16

ISBN: 9787507420647

條形碼: 9787507420647

尺寸: 23.6 x 16.8 x 2.8 cm

重量: 599 g

作者簡介

作者：(美國)亨德里克·威廉·房龍 (Hendrik Willem Van Loon)

房龍（Hendrik Willem Van Loon，1882-1944），荷裔美國著名通俗歷史學家。善於用輕巧俏皮的文字，撰寫歷史、文化、文明、科學等方面的通俗歷史著作。向人類的無知與偏執挑戰，將知識與真理普及為人所共知的常識。一生中出版了三十餘種書籍，單槍匹馬地將人類各方面的歷史幾乎全都複述一遍。其中《寬容》、《人類的故事》、《房龍地理》（即《人類的家園》）等暢銷著作，影響了幾代人。 郁達夫曾說，房龍的筆有一種魔力，乾燥無味的科學常識經他那么一寫，無論大人小孩，讀他書的人都覺得娓娓忘倦了。

內容簡介

《房龍地理·太平洋的故事(英文版原版)》中，作者以新的視野講述了發現太平洋的歷史過程：從巴拿馬地峽到靜靜的達連山，從玻里尼西亞人對太平洋最早發現到麥哲倫等人的航海之旅，從新大陸探險的狂熱到由此引發的造成數萬歐洲人破產的大騙局，從復活節島上的奇蹟到《魯濱遜漂流記》主人公原型的真實生活……。太平洋是世界上最浩瀚、遼闊的大洋，它給予人類的不僅是湛藍的、深不可測的景觀或者具有摧毀性威力的風暴，而且還有無數寶藏和資源。房龍以其深厚的學養和語言功底，將幾百年來航海家們的偉大功績娓娓道來，告訴我們太平洋的一個又一個奧秘是怎樣被發現的，不但充滿了綺麗的異國情調，而且蘊涵著豐富的人生哲理。

目錄

VAN LOON'S GEOGRAPHY

FOREWORD

JUST A MOMENT BEFORE WE GO ANY FURTHER WHILE I TELL

YOU HOW TO USE THIS BOOK

1 AND THESE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN THE WORLD

WE LIVE IN

2 A DEFINITION OF THE WORD GEOGRAPHY AND HOW I SHALL

APPLY IT IN THE PRESENT VOLUME

3 OUR PLANET: ITS HABITS, CUSTOMS AND MANNERS

4 MAPS. A VERY BRIEF CHAPTER UPON A VERY BIG AND

FASCINATING SUBJECT. TOGETHER WITH A FEW OBSERVATIONS

ON THE WAY PEOPLE SLOWLY LEARNED HOW TO FIND THEIR

WAY ON THIS PLANET OF OURS

5 THE SEASONS AND HOW THEY HAPPEN

6 CONCERNING THE LITTLE SPOTS OF DRY LAND ON THIS

PLANET AND WHY SOME OF THEM ARE CALLED

CONTINENTS WHILE OTHERS ARE NOT

7 OF THE DISCOVERY OF EUROPE AND THE SORT OF PEOPLE

WHO LIVE IN THAT PART OF THE WORLD

8 GREECE, THE ROCKY PROMONTORY OF THE EASTERN

MEDITERRANEAN WHICH ACTED AS THE CONNECTING

LINK BETWEEN THE OLD ASIA AND THE NEW EUROPE

9 ITALY, THE COUNTRY WHICH DUE TO ITS GEOGRAPHICAL

SITUATION COULD PLAY THE ROLE OF A SEA-POWER

OR A LAND-POWER, AS THE OCCASION DEMANDED

10 SPAIN, WHERE AFRICA AND EUROPE CLASHED

11 FRANCE, THE COUNTRY THAT HAS EVERYTHING IT WANTS

12 BELGIUM, A COUNTRY CREATED BY SCRAPS OF PAPER AND

RICH IN EVERYTHING EXCEPT INTERNAL HARMONY

13 LUXEMBURG, THE HISTORICAL CURIOSITY

14 SWITZERLAND, THE COUNTRY OF HIGH MOUNTAINS,

EXCELLENT SCHOOLS AND A UNIFIED PEOPLE

WHO SPEAK FOUR DIFFERENT LANGUAGES

15 GERMANY, THE NATION THAT WAS FOUNDED TOO LATE

16 AUSTRIA, THE COUNTRY THAT NOBODY APPRECIATED

UNTIL IT NO LONGER EXISTED

17 DENMARK, AN OBJECT LESSON IN CERTAIN ADVANTAGES

OF SMALL COUNTRIES OVER LARGE ONES

18 ICELAND, AN INTERESTING POLITICAL LABORATORY

IN THE ARCTIC OCEAN

19 THE SCANDINAVIAN PENINSULA,　THE TERRITORY OCCUPIED

BY THE KINGDOMS OF SWEDEN AND NORWAY

20 THE NETHERLANDS, THE SWAMP ON THE BANKS OF THE

NORTH SEA THAT BECAME AN EMPIRE

21 GREAT BRITAIN, AN ISLAND OFF THE DUTCH COAST

WHICH IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE HAPPINESS OF

FULLY ONE-QUARTER OF THE HUMAN RACE

22 RUSSIA,　THE COUNTRY WHICH WAS PREVENTED BY

ITS GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION FROM EVER FINDING

OUT WHETHER IT WAS PART OF EUROPE OR OF ASIA

23 POLAND, THE COUNTRY THAT HAD ALWAYS SUFFERED

FROM BEING A CORRIDOR AND THEREFORE NOW HAS

A CORRIDOR OF ITS OWN

24 CZECHOSLOVAKIA, A PRODUCT OF THE TREATY OF

VERSAILLES

25 YUGOSLAVIA, ANOTHER PRODUCT OF THE TREATY OF

VERSAILLES

26 BULGARIA, THE SOUNDEST OF ALL BALKAN COUNTRIES,

WHOSE BUTTERFLY-COLLECTING KING BET ON THE WRONG

HORSE DURING THE GREAT WAR AND SUFFERED THE

CONSEQUENCES

27 ROMANIA, A COUNTRY WHICH HAS OIL AND A ROYAL

FAMILY

28 HUNGARY, OR WHAT REMAINS OF IT

29 FINLAND, ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF WHAT HARD WORK

AND INTELLIGENCE CAN ACHIEVE AMID HOSTILE

NATURAL SURROUNDINGS

30 THE DISCOVERY OF ASIA

31 WHAT ASIA HAS MEANT TO THE REST OF THE WORLD

32 THE CENTRAL ASIATIC HIGHLANDS

33 THE GREAT WESTERN PLATEAU OF ASIA

34 ARABIA -OR WHEN IS A PART OF ASIA NOT A PART OF ASIA

35 INDIA, WHERE NATURE AND MAN ARE ENGAGED

IN MASS-PRODUCTION

36 BURMA, SIAM, ANAM AND MALACCA, WHICH OCCUPY

THE OTHER GREAT SOUTHERN PENINSULA OF ASIA

37 THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA, THE GREAT PENINSULA OF EASTERN，ASIA

38 KOREA, MONGOLIA

39 THE JAPANESE EMPIRE

40 THE PHILIPPINES, AN OLD ADMINISTRATIVE PART OF MEXICO

41 THE DUTCH EAST INDIES, THE TAIL THAT WAGS THE DOG

42 AUSTRALIA, THE STEP-CHILD OF NATURE

43 NEW ZEALAND

44 THE ISLANDS OF THE PACIFIC WHERE PEOPLE NEITHER

TOILED NOR SPUN BUT LIVED JUST THE SAME

45 AFRICA, THE CONTINENT OF CONTRADICTIONS AND

CONTRASTS

46 AMERICA, THE MOST FORTUNATE OF ALL

47 A NEW WORLD

THE STORY OF THE PACIFIC

1 THE PANAMA CANAL

2 SILENT ON A BENCH IN DARIEN

3 THE PREHISTORIC PACIFIC

4 MORE GUESSWORK

5 THE EARLIEST HISTORY OF POLYNESIA

6 THE SECOND DISCOVERY OF THE PACIFIC

7 THE QUEST OF THE GREAT UNKNOWN CONTINENT OF THE SOUTH

8 ABEL TASMAN PUTS NEW HOLLAND ON THE MAP

9 JACOB ROGGEVEEN

10 CAPTAIN JAMES COOK, R.N.