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Spice Islands Voyage
  

Spice Islands Voyage (Paperback)

by Timothy Severin (Author)
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  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (Oct 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0316643351
  • ISBN-13: 978-0316643351
  • Product Dimensions: 23 x 5 x 0.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,828,862 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Full of insights as it retraces a journey though places of fabulous natural and cultural diversity...' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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'Fluent and entertaining' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars spice islands, 23 Jun 2008
By G. I. Forbes (edinburgh) - See all my reviews
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This book tells the story of the authors adventures in the Spice Islands(Indonesia as he attempts to replicate the travels of Alfred Wallace who spent 7 years (1854-1861)exploring theislands. Wallace was a self taught zoologist and botanist who wrote a thesis in 1856 which outlined his views on evolution which predated Darwins The Origin of Species.How much Darwin took the ideas of Wallace is still debatable.However the two remained friends and Darwin even arranged apension for Wallace. The travels through the islands by the author and his team try to reflect Wallaces experiences.The pictures are fair and the line drawings adequate.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Too Much of Wallace, Too Little of The Real Spice Islands!, 24 April 2004
By Laszlo Wagner (Hungary) - See all my reviews
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A disappointment!
I bought this book to read about Maluku (the "Spice Islands"), one of my favourite regions in the World, but instead found myself reading far too much about the author's obsession with Alfred Wallace, whose voyages he is trying to follow.
While he does give a description of places few other recent travelogues cover, these places are always viewed through his expectations of them based on Wallace's book which was written in the 19th century. He keeps mourning how the Moluccas are not the same today as they were described by Wallace - hey, can one expect any place to remain unchanged for 150 years?
I spent about 10 months travelling around these islands myself, and really think they would deserve to be appreciated for what they are now - still a beautiful and fascinating region with a rich natural environment and great people - rather just being treated as a background to raving about a naturalist who visited them a century and a half ago!
A more sympathetic and insightful description of contemporary Maluku is the excellent, lovingly-written "Ambon: Island of Spices" by Shirley Deane.
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