The Malay ArchipelagoAlfred Russel WallaceLabel: Penguin ClassicsDescription: 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.
