THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO : THE LAND OF THE ORANG-UTAN, AND THE BIRD OF PARADISE: A NARRATIVE OF TRAVEL, WITH STUDIES OF MAN AND NATURE.
by Wallace, Alfred Russel
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- Condition
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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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- Seller
- Lost Horizon Bookstore (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 54773
- Title
- THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO : THE LAND OF THE ORANG-UTAN, AND THE BIRD OF PARADISE
- Author
- Wallace, Alfred Russel
- Format/Binding
- Original green cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothes, Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1869
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