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 1 of the two Volume book, The Malay Archipelago.
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