《念念远山》内容简介

　　《念念远山》是剑桥学者罗伯特·麦克法伦“行走文学三部曲”的启程之作。

　　仅三个世纪前，山脉还被视作大自然的粗率造物、地球表皮上的“疖子”。人们普遍相信高山险坡上游荡着邪灵，山顶上则住着神灵——可千万别爬上山去。三百年间，人们对山的恐惧如何转变成迷恋和向往？

　　罗伯特·麦克法伦走出书斋，踏上危险的山径——从苏格兰凯恩戈姆冰川蚀刻的山谷，到阿尔卑斯积雪消融的山脊，再到天山山脉的冰斗，历经冻伤与岩崩，亲身感受高山世界偏僻与宁静、荒芜与惊奇、危险与希望交缠的诱惑。

　　这趟旅程通往陡直冰封的高山，也唤出一代代奔赴群山的肉身和心灵，并最终绘制出我们隐秘的内心风景：我们所说的“山”，是地球物质形态和人类想象力的共同产物，是我们的心灵之山。

　　作者简介

　　罗伯特·麦克法伦（RobertMacfarlane）

　　英国作家、学者。剑桥大学文学与环境人文学教授，英国皇家文学学会会员。

　　他以行走滋养书写，步履不停，笔耕不辍，横跨九年创作出“行走文学三部曲”《念念远山》《荒野之境》《古道》，获得萨默塞特·毛姆文学奖、爱德华·斯坦福旅行文学奖等奖项。近作《深时之旅》获得英国温赖特奖、美国国家户外图书奖，被《纽约时报》《经济学人》《华尔街日报》等近二十家机构评为年度好书。

　　麦克法伦将当代旅行写作推向新的高度，被文学杂志《格兰塔》前主编誉为“当代最好的行走文学作家”。2013年，他成为最年轻的布克奖评委会主席。

　　杭海

　　从事教育出版，工余译书。着迷于翻译时语言、意义、文化、思想间的转幻与抵达，乐于在译途中探寻和回味。

"Read the distant mountain" content introduction

The book is the beginning of Cambridge scholar Robert MacFarlan's "Walking Literature trilogy".

Only three centuries ago, mountains were seen as a crude creation of nature, "boils" on the skin of the earth. It is widely believed that evil spirits roam the slopes of high mountains and that spirits live at the top - don't climb them. How did people's fear of mountains turn into fascination and yearning over 300 years?

Robert McFarren steps out of his study on treacherous mountain trails - from the glacier-etched valleys of Scotland's Cairngorms, to the snow-melting ridges of the Alps, to the cirque of the Tianshan Mountains, enduring frostbite and rockfalls, to experience first hand the temptation of the alpine world's isolation and peace, desolation and wonder, danger and hope.

The journey to the steep mountains of ice also calls forth generations of bodies and minds to the mountains, and ultimately maps out our hidden inner landscape: what we call "mountains" are the joint product of the physical form of the earth and the human imagination, the mountains of our mind.

About the author

RobertMacfarlane

British writer and scholar. Professor of Literature and Environmental Humanities, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

He nourished his writing by walking, walking and writing continuously, and created a "walking literature trilogy", "Thinking of the Far Mountains", "The Wilderness" and "The Ancient Road" across nine years, which won the Somerset Maugham Literature Award and Edward Stanford Travel Literature Award. His most recent book, Journey into Deep Time, won the Wainwright Award in the United Kingdom, the National Outdoor Book Award in the United States, and was named the best Book of the Year by nearly 20 organizations, including The New York Times, The Economist, and The Wall Street Journal.

Macfarlan has taken contemporary travel writing to new heights and has been described by the former editor of the literary magazine Granta as "the best walking writer of our time". In 2013, he became the youngest Man Booker Prize jury president.

Hanghai

Engaged in educational publishing, spare time translation books. Fascinated by the transformation and arrival of language, meaning, culture and ideas in translation, I am happy to explore and reflect on the translation.