The Spice Islands Voyage [Idioma Inglés] - Softcover

'Full of insights as it retraces a journey though places of fabulous natural and cultural diversity by the first person to articulate evolutionary theory concrete, engaging and enjoyable' INDEPENDENT 'Fluent and entertaining' TLS 'Filled with candour and plenty of humour, taking me on a journey through a region I know so little about. It shines a guiding light on a world Wallace described so elegantly a century earlier' WANDERLUST 'The intimate observations of unreported environmental destruction and vanishing rare creatures- and their hunters- are painfully urgent.' THE TIMES 'His account is fascinating: in part a biography of the gentle, humane naturalist, in part a travel book highlighting the region's beauty and the environmental dangers facing it.' SUNDAY TIMES

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.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.