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

Overview

The influential account of fieldwork undertaken by Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913) in Indonesia and Malaysia, first published in 1869.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781108022828
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	11/18/2010
Series:	Cambridge Library Collection - Zoology
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	544
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.40(d)

Table of Contents

1. Physical geography; 2. Singapore; 3. Malacca and Mount Ophir; 4. Borneo - the orang-utan; 5. Borneo - journey in the interior; 6. Borneo - the Dyaks; 7. Java; 8. Sumatra; 9. Natural history of the Indo-Malay islands; 10. Bali and Lombock; 11. Lombock - manners and customs; 12. How the rajah took the census; 13. Timor; 14. Natural history of the Timor Group; 15. Celebes - Macassar; 16. Celebes - Macassar; 17. Celebes - Menado; 18. Natural history of Celebes; 19. Banda; 20. Amboyna.