Title | : | The Malay Archipelago |
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Author | : | Alfred Russel Wallace & Dr Andrew Berry |
Release | : | 2014-11-27 |
Kind | : | ebook |
Genre | : | Travel Essays & Memoirs, Books, Travel & Adventure, Biographies & Memoirs, History, Travel in Asia, Historical Bios & Memoirs, Science & Nature, Earth Sciences |
Size | : | 36960423 |
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. |