The Malay archipelago
Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-19132014
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Of all the extraordinary Victorian travelogues, 'The Malay Archipelago' has a fair claim to be the greatest - both as a beautiful, alarming, vivid and gripping account of some eight years' travel across the entire Malay world - from Singapore to the western edges of New Guinea - and as the record of a great mind. As Wallace, often under conditions of terrible hardship and sickness, battles through jungles, lives with headhunters, and collects beetles, butterflies and birds-of-paradise, he makes discoveries about the workings of biology that have shaped our view of the world ever since.
Main title:
The Malay archipelago / Alfred Russel Wallace.
Imprint:
London : Penguin Classics, 2014.
Collation:
656 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9780141394404 (pbk)
Dewey class:
915.980422
Language:
English
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BRN:
2500988
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