THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO: THE LAND OF THE ORANG-UTAN AND THE BIRD OF PARADISE (OXFORD PAPERBACKS)
by Wallace, Alfred Russel
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good /No Dustjacket
- ISBN 10
- 019588955X
- ISBN 13
- 9780195889550
- Seller
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Eastbourne, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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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
- Camillas Bookshop (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0021419
- Title
- THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO: THE LAND OF THE ORANG-UTAN AND THE BIRD OF PARADISE (OXFORD PAPERBACKS)
- Author
- Wallace, Alfred Russel
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dustjacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Sixth Impression
- ISBN 10
- 019588955X
- ISBN 13
- 9780195889550
- Publisher
- OUP
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- History of Indonesia, Nature
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".
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