The Malay archipelago: the land of the orang-utan, and the bird of paradise: a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature

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.