The Eastern Archipelago. A Description of the Scenery, Animal and Vegetable Life, People, and Physical Wonders of the Islands of the Eastern Seas (1880)

by W H Davenport Adams

THE attractions which the Eastern Archipelago presents for the naturalist, the artist, and the geologist are of an exceptional character, and yet few regions of the world have been less minutely examined by English travellers. Our information respecting the great islands which compose it was comparatively scanty until the recent researches of Spenser St. John, Crawfurd, Bickmore, and Wallace. The Germans have treated them with their usual elaborateness,-witness Dr. Junghuhn's valuable book upon Java,-but English monographs of special value and importance have been, and still are, too few. This may be owing, perhaps, to the fact that the English flag waves but at a few points along that chain of romantic isles which connects Asia with Australia

• ISBN10: 0557928672
• ISBN13: 9780557928675
• Publish Date: 4 December 2010
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 16 April 2014
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Lulu.com
• Format: eBook
• Language: English