The Song Of The Dodo

The Song Of The Dodo

Author: David Quammen

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2012-03-31

Total Pages: 706

ISBN-13: 1448137403

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Why have island ecosystems always suffered such high rates of extinction? In our age, with all the world's landscapes, from Tasmania to the Amazon to Yellowstone, now being carved into island-like fragments by human activity, the implications of this question are more urgent than ever. Over the past eight years, David Quammen has followed the threads of island biogeography on a globe-encircling journey of discovery.


Spice

Spice

Author: Roger Crowley

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2024-04-09

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 0300267479

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The story of the sixteenth-century's epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific Spices drove the early modern world economy, and for Europeans they represented riches on an unprecedented scale. Cloves and nutmeg could reach Europe only via a complex web of trade routes, and for decades Spanish and Portuguese explorers competed to find their elusive source. But when the Portuguese finally reached the spice islands of the Moluccas in 1511, they set in motion a fierce competition for control. Roger Crowley shows how this struggle shaped the modern world. From 1511 to 1571, European powers linked up the oceans, established vast maritime empires, and gave birth to global trade, all in the attempt to control the supply of spices. Taking us on voyages from the dockyards of Seville to the vastness of the Pacific, the volcanic Spice Islands of Indonesia, the Arctic Circle, and the coasts of China, this is a narrative history rich in vivid eyewitness accounts of the adventures, shipwrecks, and sieges that formed the first colonial encounters--and remade the world economy for centuries to follow.


Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern - Volume II (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press)

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern - Volume II (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press)

Author: Charles Dudley Warner

Publisher:

Published: 2008-03-01

Total Pages: 612

ISBN-13: 9781603033367

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Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900) was an American essayist and novelist. He worked with a surveying party in Missouri; studied law at the University of Pennsylvania; practiced in Chicago; was assistant editor (1860) and editor (1861-1867) of The Hartford Press, and after The Press was merged into The Hartford Courant, was co-editor with Joseph R Hawley; in 1884 he joined the editorial staff of Harper's Magazine, for which he conducted The Editors Drawer until 1892, when he took charge of The Editor's Study. He travelled widely, lectured frequently, and was actively interested in prison reform, city park supervision, and other movements for the public good. He was the first president of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He first attracted attention by the reflective sketches entitled My Summer in a Garden (1870). Amongst his other works are Saunterings (1872), Backlog Studies (1873), Being a Boy (1878), In the Wilderness (1878), Captain John Smith (1881), Washington Irving (1881), A Little Journey in the World (1889), As We Were Saying (1891) and That Fortune (1899).


Food in the Novels of Joseph Conrad

Food in the Novels of Joseph Conrad

Author: Kim Salmons

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-07-18

Total Pages: 135

ISBN-13: 3319566237

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This book is about the role of food in the works of Joseph Conrad, analysing the social, political and anthropological context of references to meals, eating, food production and cannibalism. It offers a new perspective on the works of Joseph Conrad and provides an accessible medium through which readers can engage with the complex theories and philosophical dilemmas that Conrad presents in his fiction. This is the only major study of food in Conrad’s works; it is unique in its interdisciplinary approach to food in that it engages with sociological, political, historical, personal and literary perspectives, thus providing a multi-dimensional approach to cultural, revolutionary, periodical and fictional representations of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This in turn, allows an interrogation of modern anxieties, embedded in cultural norms and values that can be interpreted through the way that food is prepared and eaten.


The Malay Archipelago

The Malay Archipelago

Author: Alfred Russel Wallace

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2014-11-27

Total Pages: 814

ISBN-13: 0141394412

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Of 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.


Dispelling The Darkness: Voyage In The Malay Archipelago And The Discovery Of Evolution By Wallace And Darwin

Dispelling The Darkness: Voyage In The Malay Archipelago And The Discovery Of Evolution By Wallace And Darwin

Author: John Van Wyhe

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2013-05-10

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 9814458821

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“The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the road to the heart of the species problem lay through them, until Darwin and Wallace dispelled the darkness.”T H Huxley (1887)Darwin is one of the most famous scientists in history. But he was not alone. Comparatively forgotten, Wallace independently discovered evolution by natural selection in Southeast Asia. This book is based on the most thorough research ever conducted on Wallace's voyage. Closely connected, but worlds apart, Darwin and Wallace's stories hold many surprises. Did Darwin really keep his theory a secret for twenty years? Did he plagiarise Wallace? Were their theories really the same? How did Wallace hit on the solution, and on which island? This book reveals for the first time the true story of Darwin, Wallace and the discovery that would change our understanding of life on Earth forever.


The Malay Archipelago

The Malay Archipelago

Author: Alfred Russell Wallace

Publisher: The Floating Press

Published: 2014-07-01

Total Pages: 658

ISBN-13: 1776580737

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Fans of geography and travel writing should definitely spend some time with Alfred Russell Wallace's fascinating volume The Malay Archipelago. Compiled through decades of research, this book provides an exhaustive account of Wallace's experiences and observations on the large group of islands situated between Australia and Southeast Asia, including his interactions with the indigenous people and theories about the development of the flora and fauna of the region.


The Dodo and the Solitaire

The Dodo and the Solitaire

Author: Jolyon C. Parish

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 0253000998

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The most comprehensive book to date about these two famously extinct birds.


The Malay Archipelago

The Malay Archipelago

Author: Alfred Russell Wallace

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-05-31

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9781547004416

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Title: The Malay Archipelago Volume II. (of II.) Author: Alfred Russell Wallace


Archipelago

Archipelago

Author: Gavan Daws

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780520215764

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From the 19th-century discoveries of Alfred Russell Wallace to the fate of forests and reefs in the 21st century, examine the beauty and grace of Indonesian Islands. 211 color illustrations. Maps, photos & line drawings.