Verlag | Penguin UK |
Auflage | 2014 |
Seiten | 736 |
Format | 13 x 19,8 x 3,2 cm |
Gewicht | 498 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
Reihe | Penguin Classics |
ISBN-10 | 0141394404 |
EAN | 9780141394404 |
Bestell-Nr | 14139440EA |
Of all the Victorian travelogues, this book offers an 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.
Klappentext:
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.
Rezension:
One of the most adventurous, observant and honourable scientists of his time Sir David Attenborough