The Malay Archipelago Volume 1

The Malay Archipelago Volume 1

The Malay Archipelago Volume 1

The Malay Archipelago Volume 1

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Overview

The Malay Archipelago is a book by the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace that chronicles his scientific exploration, during the eight year period 1854 to 1862, of the southern portion of the Malay Archipelago including Malaysia, Singapore, the islands of Indonesia, then known as the Dutch East Indies, and the island of New Guinea. Its full title was The Malay Archipelago: The land of the orang-utan, and the bird of paradise. A narrative of travel, with sketches of man and nature.

Alfred Russel Wallace (8 January 1823 - 7 November 1913) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist. He is best known for independently proposing a theory of evolution due to natural selection that prompted Charles Darwin to publish his own theory.

This is Volume 1 of the two Volume book, The Malay Archipelago.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781479239429
Publisher: CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date: 09/01/2012
Pages: 356
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.74(d)
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