The Penguin Classics the Malay Archipelago

by Alfred Russel Wallace

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0141394404
• ISBN13: 9780141394404
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 656 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.1" x 7.8"