The Spice Islands Voyage
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1998
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Abacus (Verlag)
978-0-349-11040-0 (ISBN)
Abacus (Verlag)
978-0-349-11040-0 (ISBN)
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An account of a journey among the Spice Islands of Indonesia aboard a traditional native sailing vessel in 1966. The author was retracing the steps of the naturalist, Alfred Russel Wallace, whose travel book, "The Malay Archipelago", was used by Tim Severin as a guide.
Describing a journey among the Spice Islands of Indonesia aboard a traditional native sailing vessel, this is also an account of a quest to rediscover a remarkable Englishman, who changed the way we see the natural world. Alfred Russel Wallace was a joint-author of the theory of evolution by natural selection, yet today his name is overshadowed by Darwin's. A brilliant and intrepid naturalist, Wallace was the author of "The Malay Archipelago", one of the greatest of all travel books. It was used as a guide in 1996 when Tim Severin retraced his path through the Spice Islands, encountering red birds of paradise, sea turtles and other unusual flora and fauna, and observing rainforest destruction, the smuggling of rare species, and ancient systems of tribal rule.
Describing a journey among the Spice Islands of Indonesia aboard a traditional native sailing vessel, this is also an account of a quest to rediscover a remarkable Englishman, who changed the way we see the natural world. Alfred Russel Wallace was a joint-author of the theory of evolution by natural selection, yet today his name is overshadowed by Darwin's. A brilliant and intrepid naturalist, Wallace was the author of "The Malay Archipelago", one of the greatest of all travel books. It was used as a guide in 1996 when Tim Severin retraced his path through the Spice Islands, encountering red birds of paradise, sea turtles and other unusual flora and fauna, and observing rainforest destruction, the smuggling of rare species, and ancient systems of tribal rule.
Tim Severin was born in 1940 and educated at Tonbridge School and Oxford University. He holds the Founder's medal of the Royal Geographical Society, awarded in 1986 for outstanding services to exploration and geographic history. In 1988, the Royal Scottish Geographical Society presented him with the Livingstone Gold Medal.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.10.1998 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 16 colour illustrations |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 126 x 197 mm |
| Gewicht | 276 g |
| Themenwelt | Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Asien |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-349-11040-9 / 0349110409 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-349-11040-0 / 9780349110400 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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