The Malay Archipelago
Author | : Alfred Russel Wallace |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 1898 |
Genre | : Ethnology |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Alfred Russel Wallace |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 1898 |
Genre | : Ethnology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Alfred R. Wallace |
Publisher | : Cosimo, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 553 |
Release | : 2007-06-01 |
Genre | : Ethnology |
ISBN | : 1602066345 |
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1869 Edition.
Author | : Nicholas J. Long |
Publisher | : NUS Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2013-09-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9971697696 |
In 1999, the people of Indonesia's Riau Archipelago were angry. Resentful of decades of "internal colonialism" by Mainland Sumatra, and concerned that they lacked the education and skills to flourish in a globalised world, they dreamed of inhabiting a province of their own. When the post-authoritarian state committed itself to democracy and local autonomy, they lobbied vigorously and successfully for the region to be returned to its "native" Malay residents. Riau Islands Province was born in 2004. This book explores what happened next.
Author | : Alfred Russel Wallace |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press (UK) |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2013-10-24 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0199683999 |
This volume of newly transcribed letters documents the travels of the Victorian naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace in the Malay Archipelago, during which he famously discovered natural selection independently of Darwin. Vivid with detail, the letters are fully annotated and accompanied by an introduction with a newly reconstructed itinerary.
Author | : Willem Pieter Groeneveldt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 1876 |
Genre | : Chinese |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Alfred Russel Wallace |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Ethnology |
ISBN | : 9780415289313 |
Author | : John Van Wyhe |
Publisher | : World Scientific |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2013-05-10 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9814458821 |
“The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the road to the heart of the species problem lay through them, until Darwin and Wallace dispelled the darkness.”T H Huxley (1887)Darwin is one of the most famous scientists in history. But he was not alone. Comparatively forgotten, Wallace independently discovered evolution by natural selection in Southeast Asia. This book is based on the most thorough research ever conducted on Wallace's voyage. Closely connected, but worlds apart, Darwin and Wallace's stories hold many surprises. Did Darwin really keep his theory a secret for twenty years? Did he plagiarise Wallace? Were their theories really the same? How did Wallace hit on the solution, and on which island? This book reveals for the first time the true story of Darwin, Wallace and the discovery that would change our understanding of life on Earth forever.
Author | : Henry Nicholas Ridley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Botany |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Alfred Russel Wallace |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 515 |
Release | : 2023-11-14 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
The Malay Archipelago is a book by the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace which 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, and the island of New Guinea. The book describes each island that he visited in turn, giving a detailed account of its physical and human geography, its volcanoes, and the variety of animals and plants that he found and collected. At the same time, he describes his experiences, the difficulties of travel, and the help he received from the different peoples that he met.
Author | : Alfred Russel Wallace |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 736 |
Release | : 2014-11-27 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0141394412 |
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.