The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orag-Utan and the Bird of Paradise. A Narrative of Travel, With Studies of Man and Nature (two volumes in slipcase)
by Wallace, Alfred Russel; preface by Steve Jones; introduction by George Beccaloni
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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.
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- Wheeler's Bookshop (GB)
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- Title
- The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orag-Utan and the Bird of Paradise. A Narrative of Travel, With Studies of Man and Nature (two volumes in slipcase)
- Author
- Wallace, Alfred Russel; preface by Steve Jones; introduction by George Beccaloni
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Folio Society
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2017
- Keywords
- neweststock
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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