This is one the first and most important books about 18th century Malaysia and covers a wide array of topics from Malaysian culture and history to nature and wildlife.
To this day, Wallace\'s greatest accomplishment was to get Charles Darwin to publish his own theory..
He sent it to Charles Darwin who decided to publish his theory right away.
He wrote a manuscript called On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type.
Out of this experience came his theory of natural selection.
During this expedition, he saw differences between the animals in Asia and the animals in Australia.
From 1854 to 1862 he explored the Amazon River with his mentor Henry Walter Bates.
He is best known for his theory of natural selection.
Through this, he acquired the talent for observation and detailed recordings.
Shortly after finishing school, Wallace\'s father passed away, and he joined his brother to do work surveying countries for four years.
He was born on 8 January 1823 in the small village of Usk, Monmouthshire.
About author(s): Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist.
The islands east of Bali in effect form a transitional zone where some of the world\'s strangest creatures are found.
His basic thesis stands to this day: that two separate biological zones border these islands, separated by the deep-water channel now known as the Wallace Line, running between Bali and Lombok, which only a relative handful of species have crossed.
A mark of his achievement lies in the size of the collections he bequeathed to British museums--some 125,000 specimens ranging from large mammals to tiny insects, exotic butterflies and splendid birds of paradise.
He was equally fascinated by the exotic peoples, flora and fauna he encountered in his epic travels.
There is a wealth of detail about pre-modern life in the Indonesian Archipelago which Wallace accumulated on over 60 separate journeys spanning 14,000 miles.
The Malay Archipelago is an extraordinarily accessible book.
Darwin himself called Wallace generous and noble and referred favorably to his work in later editions of The Origin of Species.
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) deserves equal billing with Charles Darwin for his independently drawn but parallel conclusions on the theory of evolution.
A century and a half after it was first published, this book remains one of the great classics of natural history and travel--perhaps the greatest.
It is essential reading for anyone interested in Malaysia.
This is one the first and most important books about 18th century Malaysia and covers a wide array of topics from Malaysian culture and history to nature and wildlife
