The Malay Archipelago

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.

subjects: Natural history,  Travel,  Ethnology,  Description and travel,  Wallace, alfred russel, 1823-1913,  Natural history, malay archipelago,  Ethnology, malay archipelago,  Malay archipelago,  Asia, description and travel,  Oceania, description and travel

People: Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913)

Places: Malay Archipelago,  Asia