# The Malay Archipelago

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- Book: [The Malay Archipelago](https://www.bookquiver.com/alfred-russel-wallace/the-malay-archipelago) ([The Malay Archipelago.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/alfred-russel-wallace/the-malay-archipelago.md))
- Authors: [Alfred Russel Wallace](https://www.bookquiver.com/alfred-russel-wallace)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4139-440-4
- Pages: 736
- Published: 2014-11-27
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

I slept very comfortably with half a dozen smoke-dried human skulls suspended over my head' 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.