The Malay Archipelago: the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise: a narrative of travel with studies of man and nature
de WALLACE, Alfred Russel
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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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- Antiquates Ltd (GB)
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- The Malay Archipelago: the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise: a narrative of travel with studies of man and nature
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- WALLACE, Alfred Russel
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- Macmillan and Co.
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- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1906
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- Natural History
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- 8vo
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