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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Lingua Inglese ● Formato EPUB ● Pagine 740 ● ISBN 9780141394411 ● Editore Andrew Berry ● Casa editrice Penguin Books Ltd ● Pubblicato 2014 ● Scaricabile 3 volte ● Moneta EUR ● ID 3431475 ● Protezione dalla copia Adobe DRM
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