The Malay Archipelago: the Land of the Onrang-Utan and the Bird of Paradise A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature
by Wallace, Alfred Russel
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Prescott, Ontario, Canada
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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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- Seller
- Riverwash Books (CA)
- Seller's Inventory #
- TRAV0438
- Title
- The Malay Archipelago: the Land of the Onrang-Utan and the Bird of Paradise A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature
- Author
- Wallace, Alfred Russel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Fourth Edition
- Publisher
- MacMillan and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1872
- Keywords
- Exploration, Malasia, BORNEO, New Guinea, ZOOLOGY, ENTOMOLOGY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel;
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