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The Malay Archipelago, Volume 2 The Land of the Orang-Utan, and the Bird of Paradise. A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature

Biography / Memoir
Series: The Malay Archipelago Volume: 2
524 pages, 26 b/w illustrations, 5 b/w maps
The Malay Archipelago, Volume 2
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A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection.

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.

Contents

21. Ternate
22. Gilolo
23. Voyage to the Kaioa Islands and Batchian
24. Batchian
25. Ceram, Goram, and the Matabello Islands
26. Bouru
27. The natural history of the Moluccas
28. Macassar to the Aru Islands in a native prau
29. The Ke Islands
30. The Aru Islands - residence in Dobbo
31. The Aru Islands - journey and residence in the interior
32. The Aru Islands - second residence in Dobbo
33. The Aru Islands - physical geography and aspects of nature
34. New Guinea - Dorey
35. Voyage from Ceram to Waigiou
36. Waigiou
37. Voyage from Waigiou to Ternate
38. The birds of paradise
39. Natural history of the Papuan Islands
40. The races of man in the Malay Archipelago

Appendix on crania and languages
Index

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  • Great piece with terrible quality for huge money
    By Michal 20 Dec 2016 Written for Paperback
    The books are trying to look like original publication written by AR Wallace, unfortunately for all of us, who bought it and rely on the good name of Cambrigde University Press and high price... it's terrible... cheap and terrible quality of maps (dark and unreadable), missing maps and pictures, cheap black-and-white look... it's obvious that Cambridge University Press spared their money where it was possible and think how authentic it is :-(
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Biography / Memoir
Series: The Malay Archipelago Volume: 2
524 pages, 26 b/w illustrations, 5 b/w maps
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