The Spice Islands Voyage: In Search of Wallace is a book about a journey and a quest: a journey among the Spice Islands of equatorial Indonesia aboard a traditional native sailing vessel; a quest to rediscover a remarkable Englishman whose wanderings in the archipelago changed the way we see the natural world. The Spice Islands Voyage is a singular travel book, a unique blend of biography, ecology, history and adventure. it bears witness to the many heroic achievements of one of the great Victorian scientist-explorers.
