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Borneo, Celebes, Aru

Alfred Russel Wallace

(Penguin books, . Great journeys ; 12 ; South-East Asia)

Penguin, 2007

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Penguin great journeys

The Malay Archipelago

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"The Malay Archipelago first published 1869. This extract published in Penguin books 2007"--T.p. verso

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Description

Racked with fever, virtually broke and earning a precarious living through sending back to London the plumes of beautiful birds, Wallace (1823-1913) ultimately became one of the most heroic and admirable of all scientist-explorers. Whether living with Hill Dyaks or hunting Orang-Utans or sailing on a junk to the unbelievably remote Aru islands, Wallace opens our eyes to a now long vanished world. "Great Journeys" allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries - but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things: great civilisations, walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains, multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered.

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Details
  • NCID
    BA81079430
  • ISBN
    • 9780141025483
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    111 p.
  • Size
    18 cm
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