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 Histor (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781108007290)

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.

Author: Alfred Russel Wallace
ISBN-10: 1108007295
ISBN-13: 9781108007290
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/11/2010
Pages: 576
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.59lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.28d