{"product_id":"9780141394404-retail-the-malay-archipelago","title":"The Malay Archipelago","description":"The story of how one man travelled some 14,000 miles, collected 250,000 specimens and changed the face of science\n\n'I slept very comfortably with half a dozen smoke-dried human skulls suspended over my head'\n\nOf 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.","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49079252779227,"sku":"9780141394404-RETAIL","price":32.29,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/e1d50fe4-a965-445a-b44a-a5031910ba35.jpg?v=1786117527","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9780141394404-retail-the-malay-archipelago","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}