- Published: 30 October 2014
- ISBN: 9780141394411
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 740
The Malay Archipelago
The story of how one man travelled some 14,000 miles, collected 250,000 specimens and changed the face of science
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.
- Published: 30 October 2014
- ISBN: 9780141394411
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 740
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