Gathered during his travels on the Amazon and its tributaries between 1848 and 1852, these notes describe the palms of the great forest one species at a time, from the açaí to the piassaba that yields fibre for rope. Wallace records how each was used, for hammocks, thatch, food and the fermented drinks made from their fruit.
An early work by the co-discoverer of natural selection, full of the field observation that shaped his later thinking. Download the free EPUB.