The Malay Archipelago

The Land of the Orang-Utan, and the Bird of Paradise. A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature

By:

Alfred Russel Wallace

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Cambridge Library Collection - Zoology

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Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913) was a British naturalist who is best remembered as the co-discoverer, with Darwin, of natural selection. His extensive fieldwork and advocacy of the theory of evolution led to him being considered one of the nineteenth century's foremost biologists. These volumes, first published in 1869, contain Wallace's acclaimed and highly influential account of extensive fieldwork he undertook in modern Indonesia, Malaysia and New Guinea between 1854 and 1862. Wallace describes his travels around the island groups, depicting the unusual animals and insects he encountered and providing ethnographic descriptions of the indigenous peoples. Wallace's analysis of biogeographic patterns in Indonesia (later termed the Wallace Line) profoundly influenced contemporary and later evolutionary and geological thought concerning both Indonesia and other areas of the world where similar patterns were found. Volume 2 covers the Molucca Islands and New Guinea.

Release date NZ

November 18th, 2010

Author

Alfred Russel Wallace

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

5 Maps; 5 Halftones, black and white; 21 Line drawings, black and white

Pages

544

Series

Cambridge Library Collection - Zoology

Dimensions

31x216x140

ISBN-13

9781108022828

Product ID

8562984

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