Of all the excellent Victorian travel works, The Malay Archipelago has a fair claim to be considered the greatest - both as a beautiful, terrifying, vivid, and immersive narrative of eight years of travel across the Malaysian 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 illness, travels 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.

Pages: 736, Dimensions: 13.1x13.1cm