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- catalog abstract ""In a replica of the boat that naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace himself sailed 140 years before him - a prahu, as these sleek Stone Age sailing vessels were called - and with Wallace's own book, The Malay Archipelago, as his guide, Severin embarks on a venture that takes him and his small crew through sparkling coral seas to remote shorelines where they encounter such exotic creatures as green turtles and Red Birds of Paradise, flying foxes and Bird-Winged Butterflies. Not only do they discover the unusual flora and fauna that Wallace had recorded in his travels but they also observe the smuggling of rare birds, the destruction of the rainforest, and the selling of endangered species for small fortunes as well as the survival of ancient rituals in tribal rule and the emergence of an environmental awareness among the Indonesian islanders."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10799033.
- catalog coverage "Malay Archipelago Description and travel.".
- catalog coverage "Malay Archipelago Environmental conditions.".
- catalog created "1998, c1997.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998, c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998, c1997.".
- catalog description ""In a replica of the boat that naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace himself sailed 140 years before him - a prahu, as these sleek Stone Age sailing vessels were called - and with Wallace's own book, The Malay Archipelago, as his guide, Severin embarks on a venture that takes him and his small crew through sparkling coral seas to remote shorelines where they encounter such exotic creatures as green turtles and Red Birds of Paradise, flying foxes and Bird-Winged Butterflies. Not only do they discover the unusual flora and fauna that Wallace had recorded in his travels but they also observe the smuggling of rare birds, the destruction of the rainforest, and the selling of endangered species for small fortunes as well as the survival of ancient rituals in tribal rule and the emergence of an environmental awareness among the Indonesian islanders."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. The Fever Victim -- 2. Kei Island Prahu -- 3. Big Kei -- 4. Aru -- 5. Turtle Beach -- 6. Jewels of the Moluccas -- 7. The Sago Zone -- 8. Red Birds of Paradise -- 9. Bacan -- 10. Ternate -- 11. Wallace's Standard Wing -- 12. Maleos and Bats -- 13. Gadfly and Guru.".
- catalog extent "267 p., [16] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0786705183".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998, c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Carroll & Graf Publishers,".
- catalog spatial "Malay Archipelago Description and travel.".
- catalog spatial "Malay Archipelago Environmental conditions.".
- catalog spatial "Malay Archipelago.".
- catalog subject "959.8 21".
- catalog subject "DS601 .S4 1998".
- catalog subject "Natural history Malay Archipelago.".
- catalog subject "Severin, Timothy Journeys Malay Archipelago.".
- catalog subject "Severin, Timothy Travel Malay Archipelago.".
- catalog subject "Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. The Fever Victim -- 2. Kei Island Prahu -- 3. Big Kei -- 4. Aru -- 5. Turtle Beach -- 6. Jewels of the Moluccas -- 7. The Sago Zone -- 8. Red Birds of Paradise -- 9. Bacan -- 10. Ternate -- 11. Wallace's Standard Wing -- 12. Maleos and Bats -- 13. Gadfly and Guru.".
- catalog title "The Spice Islands voyage : the quest for Alfred Wallace, the man who shared Darwin's discovery of evolution / Tim Severin ; photographs by Joe Beynon and Paul Harris.".
- catalog type "text".