The Annotated Malay Archipelago By Alfred Russel Wallace

Author : Alfred Russel Wallace
Publisher : NUS Press
ISBN 13 : 997169820X
Total Pages : 826 pages
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Download or read book The Annotated Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace written by Alfred Russel Wallace and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2014-09-29 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Alfred Russel Wallace
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ISBN 13 : 9789813250239
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Author : Alfred Russel Wallace
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Total Pages : 564 pages
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Download or read book The Malay Archipelago written by Alfred Russel Wallace and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alfred Russel Wallace
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 576 pages
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Download or read book The Malay Archipelago written by Alfred Russel Wallace and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alfred Russel Wallace
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199683999
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alfred Russel Wallace written by Alfred Russel Wallace and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Alfred Russel Wallace
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141394412
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Malay Archipelago written by Alfred Russel Wallace and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-11-27 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Alfred Russel Wallace
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3732639851
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Malay Archipelago written by Alfred Russel Wallace and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace

Author : Alfred Russell Wallace
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ISBN 13 : 9781473323919
Total Pages : 460 pages
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Download or read book The Malay Archipelago written by Alfred Russell Wallace and published by . This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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Total Pages : 366 pages
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Download or read book The Malay Archipelago the Land of the Orang-utan, and the Bird of Paradise by Alfred Russel Wallace written by and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alfred Wallace
Publisher : Litres
ISBN 13 : 5041627460
Total Pages : 387 pages
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Download or read book The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1 written by Alfred Wallace and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: