Alfred R Wallace: 2 books

     September 1903.    'The wilder'd mind is tost and lost, O sea, in thy eternal tide; The reeling brain essays in vain, O stars, to grasp the vastness wide! The terrible tremendous scheme That glimmers in each glancing light, O night, O stars, too rudely jars The finite with the infinite!'     J.H. Dell.

This book presents the History of New Guinea and its ihabitants. “Immediately north of Australia, and separated from it at Torres Straits by less than a hundred miles of sea, is the largest island on the globe — New Guinea, a country of surpassing interest, whether as regards its natural productions...