The Annotated Malay Archipelago By Alfred Russel Wallace
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The Annotated Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace
Author | : Alfred Russel Wallace |
Publsiher | : NUS Press |
Total Pages | : 826 |
Release | : 2014-09-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789971698201 |
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Wallace's Malay Archipelago is a classic account of the travels of a Victorian naturalist through island Southeast Asia. It has been loved by readers ever since its publication in 1869. Despite numerous modern reprints with appreciative introductions, this is the first - and long overdue - annotated edition in English. This edition explains, updates and corrects the original text with an historical introduction and hundreds of explanatory notes. Wallace left hundreds of people, places, publications and species unidentified. He referred to most species only with the scientific name current at the time. Whenever available, the common names for species have been provided, and scientific names updated. The content of the book has never been thoroughly analysed and compared against other contemporary sources. It turns out that the book contains many errors. This includes not just incorrect dates and place names but some of the most remarkable anecdotes; for example, the dramatic claim that tigers "kill on an average a Chinaman every day" in Singapore or that a Dutch Governor General committed suicide by leaping from a waterfall on Celebes. By correcting the text of the Malay Archipelago against Wallace's letters and notebooks and other contemporary sources and by enriching it with modern identifications this edition reveals Wallace's work as never before.
The Malay Archipelago
Author | : Alfred Russel Wallace |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : Ethnology |
ISBN | : HARVARD:HWRFBR |
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The Annotated Malay Archipelago
Author | : Alfred Russel Wallace |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Malay Archipelago |
ISBN | : 9813250232 |
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The Malay Archipelago
Author | : Alfred Russel Wallace |
Publsiher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2018-04-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9783732639854 |
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Reproduction of the original: The Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace
The Malay Archipelago
Author | : Alfred Russel Wallace |
Publsiher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 736 |
Release | : 2014-11-27 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9780141394411 |
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Of all the extraordinary Victorian travelogues, The Malay Archipelago has a fair claim to be the greatest - both as a beautiful, alarming, vivid and gripping account of some eight years' travel across the entire Malay world - from Singapore to the western edges of New Guinea - and as the record of a great mind. As Wallace, often under conditions of terrible hardship and sickness, battles through jungles, lives with headhunters, and collects beetles, butterflies and birds-of-paradise, he makes discoveries about the workings of biology that have shaped our view of the world ever since.
The Malay Archipelago
Author | : Alfred Russell Wallace |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2014-11-25 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1473323916 |
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This early work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1869 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. The Malay Archipelago is an important account of Wallace's journey to the Malay Archipelago (now Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia). During this eight year period he collected more than 126,000 specimens, several thousand of which represented new species to science. While travelling, Wallace refined his thoughts about evolution and in 1858 he outlined his theory of natural selection in an article he sent to Charles Darwin. This was published in the same year along with Darwin's own theory. The Malay Archipelago became one of the most popular books of scientific exploration in the 19th century. This book is the first of two volumes.
The Malay Archipelago the Land of the Orang utan and the Bird of Paradise by Alfred Russel Wallace
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 1869 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : IBNN:BN000552948 |
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Alfred Russel Wallace
Author | : Alfred Russel Wallace |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2013-10-24 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780199683994 |
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Presents the letters of the great Victorian naturalist who, while on his journey in the Malay Archipelago, derived the theory of evolution independent of Darwin.