The Malay Archipelago [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Russel Wallace, Alfred

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ISBN 10: 0141394404 ISBN 13: 9780141394404

Casa editrice: Penguin Classics, 2014

Riassunto

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.

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One of the most adventurous, observant and honourable scientists of his time (Sir David Attenborough)

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Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) was one of the most important and likeable British scientists of the 19th century. A field researcher of genius, he spent many years in Brazil and southeast Asia, identifying many new species and, independently of Darwin, before developing - in parallel to Darwin - the theory of evolution through natural selection. He effectively created the whole field of 'bio-geography', with the great split between Eurasian and Australasian flora and fauna, which runs through the Malay archipelago, now named the Wallace Line. His research on warning colouration and speciation continues to shape modern research.

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• Editore: Penguin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0141394404
• ISBN 13: 9780141394404
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 736
• Redattore: Berry Dr Andrew