The Malay Archipelago Volume 2
Author | : Alfred Wallace |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012-09 |
ISBN-10 | : 147923950X |
ISBN-13 | : 9781479239504 |
Rating | : 4/5 (504 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Malay Archipelago Volume 2 written by Alfred Wallace and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Malay Archipelago is a book by the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace that 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, then known as the Dutch East Indies, and the island of New Guinea. Its full title was The Malay Archipelago: The land of the orang-utan, and the bird of paradise. A narrative of travel, with sketches of man and nature. Alfred Russel Wallace (8 January 1823 - 7 November 1913) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist. He is best known for independently proposing a theory of evolution due to natural selection that prompted Charles Darwin to publish his own theory. This is Volume 2 of the two Volume book, The Malay Archipelago.