Overview
Of all the Victorian travelogues, this book offers an 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.
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.
- | Author: Alfred Russel Wallace, Dr Andrew Berry
- | Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- | Publication Date: Nov 27, 2014
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9780141394404
- | ISBN-10: 0141394404
