The Malay Archipelago
Subtitle: the land of the orang-utan, and the bird of paradise : a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature
By: Alfred Russel Wallace ; foreword by the Earl of Cranbrook
Series: Stanfords travel classics; Stanfords travel classics
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 531
ISBN-13: 9781909612556
Subjects: Natural history; Travel; Ethnology; Description and travel
Description: CLASSIC TRAVEL WRITING. 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.
Notes: First published: 1869.

Includes bibliographical references.