In 1848 the young Wallace sailed for Brazil with Henry Walter Bates, longing to see the tropics he had read about. His narrative follows four years of travel and collecting along the Amazon and the Rio Negro, with descriptions of forests, rivers, insects, birds and monkeys, and of the Indigenous peoples and settlers he lived among.
The first book by the co-discoverer of natural selection, essential for anyone drawn to the Amazon and Victorian exploration. Download the free EPUB.