The Malay Archipelago

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.>

About the author

Alfred Russel Wallace

Summary

Of all the Victorian travelogues, this book offers an 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.

Report

One of the most adventurous, observant and honourable scientists of his time Sir David Attenborough

Product details

• Authors: Wallace Alfred Russel, Andrew Berry
• Assisted by: Andrew Berry (Editor)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 27.11.2014
• EAN: 9780141394404
• ISBN: 978-0-14-139440-4
• No. of pages: 736
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 31 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Classics; Pocket Penguins
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Malaysia, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, Expeditions, HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries, TRAVEL / Asia / Southeast, Expeditions: popular accounts, Indonesia