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The Spice Islands Voyage (Paperback)

by Tim Severin (Author)
3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

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'Full of insights as it retraces a journey though places of fabulous natural and cultural diversity...'

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'Fluent and entertaining'
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3.0 out of 5 stars The Spice Islands Voyage, Dec 29 2003
By Brian Philip Tyhy (Whitehorse, Yukon Canada) - See all my reviews
The Spice Island voyage is parallel story for the
authories sailing experience in the spice island
and of the 1800 century Alfred Wallace.
It's a facinating tale of two eras and how socially
and environmentally the old and new world are
much the same but changed in many ways. The book
is well written with references to Alfred Wallace's
written submission to Darwin about the orgin of the species.
Evidence is given that Wallace may have been the
major contributor to the general theory that species
evolved because of the environment.

The modern day adventurers build and sail an boat
of an old Indonesian design. The voyage follows the
route of Alfred Wallace who sailed the same waters years
earlier. There is a sad message of environmental
destruction caused by the need of Indonesians to survive.
The book is stimulating and created a want to read more
of Tom Severin books

Brian Tyhy

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