The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-Utan, and the Bird of Paradise. A Narrative of Travel, with Studies ... Library Collection - Life Sciences) - Softcover

Wallace, Alfred Russell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108022812 ISBN 13: 9781108022811

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913) was a British naturalist 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 1 covers the islands of Indonesia and Malaysia.

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Book Description:

Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913) was a British naturalist best remembered as the co-discoverer of natural selection. These volumes, first published in 1869, contain Wallace's account of fieldwork he undertook in Indonesia, Malaysia and New Guinea between 1854 and 1862. Volume 1 covers the islands of Indonesia and Malaysia.

About the Author:

Alfred Russel Wallace (1823 1913) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, and biologist, as well as a prolific author.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1108022812
• ISBN 13: 9781108022811
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 522