Hours of Idleness-George Gordon, Lord Byron

from Malay Archipelago, Volume 2 · host Alfred Russel Wallace

A fascinating and classic Victorian ethnology of SE Asia, first published in 1869. The author was co-discoverer of evolution, together with Darwin. (Summary by Nicholas Longhurst)

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