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Pocket Penguins: The Malay Archipelago

Alfred Russel Wallace


  • Penguin Pocket
'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, exhilarating and heroic account of his travels across the entire Malay world, from Singapore to the western edges of New Guinea.

ISBN 9780241261873 | E | PB
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Publisher Penguin Pocket
ISBN 9780241261873
Publication date May 2016
Edition Paperback
Dimensions 181 x 111 mm
Pages 752
Language(s) Eng. ed.
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'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, exhilarating and heroic account of his travels across the entire Malay world, from Singapore to the western edges of New Guinea. With exploratory zeal and lyrical brilliance, he describes battling through jungles, enduring seasickness and fever, meeting head hunters, marvelling at birds of paradise and collecting countless new species, as he made discoveries that changed our view of the world.

A new series of twenty distinctive, unforgettable Penguin Classics in a beautiful new design and pocket-sized format, with coloured jackets echoing Penguin's original covers.