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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 (Paperback)
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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 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Latin American Studies
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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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