The Malay Archipelago: the Land of the Orang-Utan and the Bird of Paradise; A Narrative of Travel with Studies of Man and Nature
by Wallace, Alfred Russel
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 9971947501
- ISBN 13
- 9789971947507
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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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- Russian Hill Bookstore (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 53883
- Title
- The Malay Archipelago: the Land of the Orang-Utan and the Bird of Paradise; A Narrative of Travel with Studies of Man and Nature
- Author
- Wallace, Alfred Russel
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 9971947501
- ISBN 13
- 9789971947507
- Publisher
- Graham Brash (Pte) Ltd
- Place of Publication
- Singapore
- Date Published
- 1987
- Keywords
- MALAY
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