van Wyhe, J. and Rookmaaker, K. Alfred Russel Wallace : Letters from the Malay Archipelago. 1st. Pbk. Ed. Pub. OUP. 2015
pp.xxxi, 319 with 8 col. & b/w. illus. 8vo. Fine softback. With a foreword by Sir David Attenborough.
Brings together the letters of Alfred Russel Wallace during his travels of 1854-62 in the Malay Archipelago which led him to come independently to the same conclusion as Charles Darwin. Beautifully written, they are filled with lavish descriptions of the remote regions he explored, the peoples, and details of the many new species of mammals, birds, and insects he discovered during his time there.
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