| Genre: | Travel Writing |
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| Language : | English |
| Published: | December 02, 2014 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
Paperback | |
| ISBN13: | 9780141394404 |
| ISBN10: | 0141394404 |
| Pages: | 656 |
| Dimensions: | 5.04 x 7.76 x 1.32 inches |
| Weight: | 498.95 g |
About the Book
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.