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A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, with an Account of the Native Tribes, and Observ

A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, with an Account of the Native Tribes, and Observ

Wallace, Alfred Russell

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Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Latin American Studies

Environmental StudiesGeneral World HistorySouth America

ISBN10: 1108007295
ISBN13: 9781108007290
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Feb 11 2010
Pages: 576
Weight: 1.59
Height: 1.28 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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.

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