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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.
de Wallace, Alfred Russel
- Usado
- very good
- Estado
- Very Good
- Librería
-
London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
London: Macmillan and Co. 1872. Small 8vo. Fourth edition. xvi, 653 pp. Half green morocco over marbled boards; gilt lettering to spine with raised bands; endpapers and all edges marbled. Minor rubbing to spine's extremities. Some scattered foxing throughout, mostly confined to page edges. Two fold-out colour maps (the first with 4 folds and the second with 2) showing Wallace's routes in the region, as well as a physical map of the region showing the volcanic belts. Eight black and white plates from engravings, all complete. Numerous other in-text illustrations. . Very Good. Half Morocco. 4th Edition. 1872.
Sinopsis
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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- Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA
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- Inventario del vendedor #
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- Título
- The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-Utan and the Bird of Paradise. A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature.
- Autor
- Wallace, Alfred Russel
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Half Morocco
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- 4th Edition
- Editorial
- Macmillan and Co. 1872
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1872
- Tamaño
- Small 8vo.
- Palabras clave
- Ethnography,Zoology,Malay,Malaysia,South East Asia,biogeography,, Darwin,Natural selection,Royal Society,Borneo
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Travel; Natural History;
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