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Borneo, Celebes, Aru by Wallace Alfred Russel
Category: Travel | Series: Penguin 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.
Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Stanfords Travel Classics Ser.
The Malay Archipelago By Alfred Russel Wallace 'I slept very comfortably with half a dozen smoke-dried human skulls suspended over my head' The great Victorian scientist's heroic adventures across South-East Asia, from Singapore to the wilds of New Guinea, encountering head-hunters, jungles, birds of pa ...Show more
The Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace
Category: Travel | Series: Stanfords Travel Classics
An intrepid explorer who earned his living by collecting bird skins, Wallace also catalogued the vast number of plant and animal species that inhabited this unique geographical area. In addition he includes numerous observations on the people, their languages, and ways of living and social organisation ...Show more
The Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace; Andrew Berry (Editor)
Category: History
The Malay Archipelago By Alfred Russel Wallace 'I slept very comfortably with half a dozen smoke-dried human skulls suspended over my head' The great Victorian scientist's heroic adventures across South-East Asia, from Singapore to the wilds of New Guinea, encountering head-hunters, jungles, birds of pa ...Show more
The Malay Archipelago 2 Volume Set - The Land of the Orang-Utan, and the Bird of Paradise. A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature by Alfred Russel Wallace
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Zoology Ser.
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823 1913) was a British naturalist who is best remembered as the co-discoverer, with Darwin, of natural selection. His extensive fieldwork and advocacy of the theory of evolution led to him being considered one of the nineteenth century's foremost evolutionary theorists. These vo ...Show more
The Malay Archipelago (Penguin Pocket Classics No. 4) by Alfred Russel Wallace
Category: Classic | Series: Pocket Penguins
'I slept very comfortably with half a dozen smoke-dried human skulls suspended over my head'Alfred Russel Wallace left to explore the islands of southeast Asia an obscure naturalist; he returned eight years later an acclaimed scientist and co-discoverer of the theory of evolution. This is his vivid, exh ...Show more
The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-Utan, and the Bird of Paradise. A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature by Alfred Russel Wallace
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Life Sciences
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) was a British naturalist best remembered as the co-discoverer, with Darwin, of natural selection. His extensive fieldwork and advocacy of the theory of evolution led to him being considered one of the nineteenth century's foremost biologists. These volumes, first publis ...Show more
Tropical Nature and Other Essays by Alfred Russel Wallace
Category: Science | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Darwin, Evolution and Genetics Ser.
Sometimes referred to as 'the grand old man of science', Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) was a naturalist, evolutionary theorist, and friend of Charles Darwin. In this study of tropical flora and fauna, he takes the reader on a tour of the equatorial forest belt - the almost continuous band of forest ...Show more
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