美国作家、历史学家房龙撰写了诸多著作,其中《房龙地理——地球的故事》是拥有最广泛读者的一部著作。自1932年出版后,它在美国始终名列非虚构作品排行榜榜首,次年就有了中文版。我们学习地理,常常学习地球的概况、地形地貌、重要城市和经济概况等等枯燥的知识。在《地球的故事》里,房龙打破了常规地理书的写作方式,“把人类关心的故事写进地理学”。一经他渲染,读地理犹如读一本妙趣横生的小说一般, American writer and historian Fang Long has authored many books, among which “Fang Long Geography - The Story of Earth” is the book that has the broadest readership. Since its publication in 1932, it has consistently topped the non-fiction list in the United States, with the Chinese edition the following year. We study geography and often study the earth’s landscape, topography, important cities and economic conditions and so on boring knowledge. In “The Story of the Earth,” Fang Long breaks the way conventional geography books are written, “to write the story of human concern in geography.” Once he is rendered, read geography as if reading a fun-filled novel in general,