Publication

2015 - , England

Language

English

Word Count

132,750 words, Guess

Page Count

531 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-101909612553
  • ISBN-139781909612556
  • OCLC Control Number929887293
  • Better World Books9781909612556
  • Open LibraryOL26934069M

Classifications

  • DDC915.9804/22
  • LCCDS601 .W18 2015
  • LCCDS601

Description

CLASSIC TRAVEL WRITING. 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.

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Other Editions

  • The Malay Archipelago: the land of the orang-utan, and the bird of paradise : a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature2015-01-01

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