Lady Trent Memoirs: The Tropic of Serpents

Paperback: 320 pages

出版社: Titan Books (20 Jun. 2014)

语种: English

ISBN-10: 1783292415

ISBN-13: 978-1783292417

产品尺寸及重量: 130 x 198 x 27mm | 287g

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[U]ncompromisingly honest and forthright... with a heroine at once admirable, formidable and captivating. Reader, lose no time in making Isabella s acquaintance. — Kirkus Reviews, starred review

Marie Brennan brings dragons into the Victorian world, and flawlessly so... [It] gives fantasy readers another good reason to enter Brennan s fantastical world. — Washington Post

Every bit as exciting and engrossing as the first part of Lady Trent s memoir. Isabella s strength and bravery in the name of scientific advancement... is beyond admirable she s a model protagonist. —Romantic Times Book Reviews

Lady Trent makes for an intrepid and pleasingly independent protagonist, mastering challenges both emotional and physical —Publishers Weekly

"A great follow-up to A Natural History of Dragons... So whenever the third installment of this series is out, I'm totally on board." —Fantasy Book Cafe

"Exhilarating sections of writing, a cleverness regarding calling back prior details to prove their place in and worth to the plot when least expected, and of course the whole ethos of the series. That very Victorian attitude, and completely sustained historical writing style, still marks these books out. The Lady Trent Isabella to a select few is and always will be good company." — The Book Bag 

"In the book, Todd Lockwood takes us through the places of natural beauty while Marie Brennan brings Lady Trent and her other characters to life in this intense and enigmatic adventure." — SF Site

书籍简介

在《特伦特夫人回忆录01：龙的自然史》中，讲述了一位名叫伊莎贝拉的女子学习历史课程，有朝一日成为世界首屈一指的龙族博物学家。在第二卷里，她通过令人生畏的Vystrana山脉的命运之旅三年后，Camherst夫人无视家庭和大会，开始远征被战争蹂躏的Eriga大陆。这里充满奇异和凶猛的物种，例如萨瓦那草栖蛇、树栖蛇，而最难以捉摸的物种是传说中在热带沼泽的——龙。

然而，探险向来并不是容易顺利的事。在一位老同事和一位失控逃跑的女继承人的陪伴下，伊莎贝拉必须冒着闷热天气、无情的狂热、宫廷阴谋、流言蜚语和其他危险，以满足她对所有严酷事物的无限迷恋。即使这意味着深入这片被称为“绿色地狱”的丛林，也在所不惜，她将面对前所未有的勇气、机智和科学的好奇心的挑战。

"During these years I found myself accused of fornication, high treason, and status as the worst mother in all of Scirland... 

Attentive readers of Lady Trent’s earlier memoir, A Natural History of Dragons, are already familiar with how a bookish and determined young woman named Isabella first set out on the historic course that would one day lead her to becoming the world’s premier dragon naturalist. Now, in this remarkably candid second volume, Lady Trent looks back at the next stage of her illustrious (and occasionally scandalous) career.

Three years after her fateful journeys through the forbidding mountains of Vystrana, Mrs. Camherst defies family and convention to embark on an expedition to the war-torn continent of Eriga, home of such exotic draconian species as the grass-dwelling snakes of the savannah, arboreal tree snakes, and, most elusive of all, the legendary swamp-wyrms of the tropics.

The expedition is not an easy one. Accompanied by both an old associate and a runaway heiress, Isabella must brave oppressive heat, merciless fevers, palace intrigues, gossip, and other hazards in order to satisfy her boundless fascination with all things draconian, even if it means venturing deep into the forbidden jungle known as the Green Hell . . . where her courage, resourcefulness, and scientific curiosity will be tested as never before.

作者简介

Marie Brennan，原名Bryn Neuenschwander，Marie Brennan是她的笔名，生于1980年，魔幻小说作者，毕业于哈佛大学，拥有考古学和民俗学的本科学位，并在布卢明顿的印第安纳大学完成了文化人类学和民俗学的研究生课程。第一部小说于2004年出版，从那时起，她已经出版了十几部作品和四十多片短篇小说。

Marie Brennan is the pseudonym of Bryn Neuenschwander, an American fantasy author. Her works include the Doppelganger duology (Doppelganger and its sequel Warrior and Witch, respectively retitled Warrior and Witch on later printings); the Onyx Court series; the Memoirs of Lady Trent series; and numerous short stories. The first of the Onyx Court novels, Midnight Never Come, published on 1 May 2008 in the United Kingdom, and 1 June 2008 in the United States, received a four star-review from SFX Magazine.

As an undergraduate at Harvard University, Neuenschwander served as co-chair of the Harvard-Radcliffe Science Fiction Association. After graduating from Harvard, she pursued graduate studies at Indiana University, studying folklore and anthropology; in 2008 she left graduate school without completing her PhD, in order to pursue writing full-time.