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020			_a9780565095390 (hbk.) _cGBP14.99
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100			_aWALLACE Alfred Russel _eauthor
245			_aThe Malay Archipelago: _bthe land of the Orang-Utan, and the bird of paradise: _ba narrative of travel with studies of man and nature/ _cby Alfred Russel Wallace
250			_aNew Edition
260			_aLondon: _bNatural History Museum, _c2023
300			_a xix, 515 pages: _billustrations, maps; _c21 cm.
500			_aIncluded fold-out pages.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"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. This is 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.
650			_aETHNOLOGY _xMALAY ARCHIPELAGO
650			_aMALAY ARCHIPELAGO _xDESCRIPTION AND TRAVELS
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