The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-Utan and the Bird of Paradise
by Wallace, Alfred Russel
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 019588955X
- ISBN 13
- 9780195889550
- Seller
-
Almere, Netherlands
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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
- Klondyke (NL)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 00251464
- Title
- The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-Utan and the Bird of Paradise
- Author
- Wallace, Alfred Russel
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- 2
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 019588955X
- ISBN 13
- 9780195889550
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 1991
- Pages
- 638
- Keywords
- Geschiedenis Azië, Geschiedenis Azië
- Bookseller catalogs
- Asian History;