The Malay Archipelago

Second Hand
Soft back
Published by: OUP

1st thus. Book Condition: Near Fine.
A softback copy in excellent condition. Very lightly used.
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.
ISBN: 9780195889550