The Malay Archipelago
Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-19132016
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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.
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Imprint:
London : Penguin Classics, 2016.
Collation:
752 pages ; 19 cm.
Series title:
ISBN:
9780241261873 (pbk)
Dewey class:
915.980422
LC class:
DS601
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1438051