The Malay Archipelago
Descriere
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.
Despre autor
Alfred Russel Wallace, OM, FRS a fost un antropolog, biolog, biogeograf, evoluționist și explorator englez. Wallace este cel mai bine cunoscut pentru prezentarea independentă a unei teorii a selecției naturale, ceea ce l-a făcut pe Charles Darwin să publice propria sa teorie evoluționistă.
