The Malay Archipelago : The Land of the Orang-Utan and the Bird of Paradise
by Wallace, Alfred Russel
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- ISBN 10
- 1906780315
- ISBN 13
- 9781906780319
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Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Better World Books Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 49008643-20
- Title
- The Malay Archipelago : The Land of the Orang-Utan and the Bird of Paradise
- Author
- Wallace, Alfred Russel
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1906780315
- ISBN 13
- 9781906780319
- Publisher
- Beaufoy Publishing, John
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- This edition first published
- 2011-01