Describing a journey among the Spice Islands of Indonesia aboard a traditional native sailing vessel, this is also an account of a quest to rediscover a remarkable Englishman, who changed the way we see the natural world. Alfred Russel Wallace was a joint-author of the theory of evolution by natural selection, yet today his name is overshadowed by Darwin's. A brilliant and intrepid naturalist, Wallace was the author of "The Malay Archipelago", one of the greatest of all travel books. It was used as a guide in 1996 when Tim ...
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Describing a journey among the Spice Islands of Indonesia aboard a traditional native sailing vessel, this is also an account of a quest to rediscover a remarkable Englishman, who changed the way we see the natural world. Alfred Russel Wallace was a joint-author of the theory of evolution by natural selection, yet today his name is overshadowed by Darwin's. A brilliant and intrepid naturalist, Wallace was the author of "The Malay Archipelago", one of the greatest of all travel books. It was used as a guide in 1996 when Tim Severin retraced his path through the Spice Islands, encountering red birds of paradise, sea turtles and other unusual flora and fauna, and observing rainforest destruction, the smuggling of rare species, and ancient systems of tribal rule.
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1997. Little, Brown. First. Hard Cover. Book-VG+. Dj-VG. 9.5x6.5. 267pp. 35 colour photos by Joe Beynon & Paul Harris, many b/w illus by Leonard Sheil.
This is the account of a sea voyage around the Moluccas, in an attempt to re-create the journey made by the naturalist Alfred Wallace in the late 19th century. Tim Severin asssembles a crew of locals and modern Western scientists. They commission the building of a traditional craft from local islanders as a replica of the one Wallace used. The intent is to see what of the natural world has remained the same and what has been lost in the intervening century or so. What emerges is a largely dispiriting sense of waste and loss, of nature reserves neglected and poor policing of the ban on the hunting of protected species. Anything on the endangered list is freely available to buy in local markets.
The book is an indictment of government indifference and local officials corruption. But there is little to engage a casual reader, there is no sense of human adventure on the journey, no jeopardy to face, no transformative experience.
Severin does quite a good job of revealing the character of Wallace and lauds his pioneering work, illuminating a life neglected in modern times.
Overall I was left with sadness for what has been lost.
