The Spice Islands Voyage: The Quest for Alfred Wallace, the Man Who Shared Darwin's Discovery of Evolution - Softcover

Severin, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786707216 ISBN 13: 9780786707218

Verlag: Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc, 1999

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Book by Severin Tim

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This remarkable account of Tim Severin's voyage to the Indonesian Archipelago in search of the island paradise that naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace had explored 140 years before him offers both the thrills of exotic adventure and the marvels of scientific discovery. In a replica of the boat that Wallace himself sailed to the Spice Islands and with Wallace's The Malay Archipelago as his guide, Severin travels to remote shores that still harbor such rare but fast-disappearing creatures as red birds of paradise, flying foxes, and bird-winged butterflies. Not only does he discover the now-endangered flora and fauna that Wallace recorded in his expeditions, he also pays due homage to his intrepid predecessor, the man who provided Darwin with the ideas and principles that changed forever the way we view nature and with him co-authored the theory of evolution.

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• Verlag: Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0786707216
• ISBN 13: 9780786707218
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288