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A NARRATIVE OF TRAVELS ON THE AMAZON AND RIO NEGRO, WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE NATIVE TRIBES, AND OBSERVATIONS ON THE CLIMATE, GEOLOGY, AND NATURAL HISTORY OF THE AMAZON
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| By: |
Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£35.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1108007295 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781108007290 |
| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE LIBRARY COLLECTION |
| Pub. date: |
11 February, 2010 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Library Collection - Latin American Studies |
| Pages: |
576 |
| Description: |
This 1853 publication documents Alfred R. Wallace's impressively detailed observations of the then largely unknown Amazon region. |
| Synopsis: |
A friend of Charles Darwin and a social activist respected by John Stuart Mill, Alfred R. Wallace (1823-1913) was an outstanding nineteenth-century intellectual. Wallace, renowned in his time as the co-discoverer of natural selection, was a young schoolteacher when he began his exciting career as an explorer-naturalist, and set off for Brazil in 1848 with Henry Walter Bates. A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro (1853) is the stimulating and engaging result of this first expedition and a precursor to his best-selling Malay Archipelago (1869). The depth and breadth of Wallace's observations in this book as naturalist, anthropologist and geologist are remarkable, and it is tantalising to learn that half his notes and 'the greater part of [his] collections and sketches' were lost at sea when his ship was burned on his voyage home. |
| Illustrations: |
1 colour illus. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |