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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
"The Malay Archipelago" is perhaps the most celebrated of all
writings on Indonesia. Attracting huge public interest at the time
of publication, this two-part work ranks with the nineteenth
century's most important travel writing and Wallace's name
continues to be inextricably linked to the area.
Wallace was best known for his discovery and description of the
faunal discontinuity that now bears his name, "Wallace's Line,"
extending between the islands of Bali and Lombok and Borneo and
Sulawesi, described here in "The Malay Archipelago." This led to
his theory of natural selection, which was presented to the
Linnaean Society in 1858.
"The Malay Archipelago" is perhaps the most celebrated of all
writings on Indonesia. Attracting huge public interest at the time
of publication, this two-part work ranks with the nineteenth
century's most important travel writing and Wallace's name
continues to be inextricably linked to the area.
Wallace was best known for his discovery and description of the
faunal discontinuity that now bears his name, "Wallace's Line,"
extending between the islands of Bali and Lombok and Borneo and
Sulawesi, described here in "The Malay Archipelago." This led to
his theory of natural selection, which was presented to the
Linnaean Society in 1858.
First published in 1925. This study examines the advances in
engineering and science in the nineteenth century. The author
examines topics on locomotion and sea travel, photography,
chemistry, electricity amongst many other industrial and scientific
developments. This title will be of interest to historians as well
as scientists and engineers.
First published in 1925. This study examines the advances in
engineering and science in the nineteenth century. The author
examines topics on locomotion and sea travel, photography,
chemistry, electricity amongst many other industrial and scientific
developments. This title will be of interest to historians as well
as scientists and engineers.
The eight key titles re-published in this set make important texts
accessible once again, and provide a comprehensive overview of this
influential Victorian phenomenon. Available as an eight-volume set
or as individual volumes.
A giant of the discipline of biogeography and co-discoverer of
natural selection, Alfred Russel Wallace was the most famous
naturalist in the world when he died in 1913. To mark the
centennial of Wallace's death, James Costa offers an elegant
edition of the "Species Notebook" of 1855-1859, which Wallace kept
during his legendary expedition in peninsular Malaysia, Indonesia,
and western New Guinea. Presented in facsimile with text
transcription and annotations, this never-before-published document
provides a new window into the travels, personal trials, and
scientific genius of the co-discoverer of natural selection. In one
section, headed "Note for Organic Law of Change"--an extended
critique of geologist Charles Lyell's anti-evolutionary
arguments--Wallace sketches a book he would never write, owing to
the unexpected events of 1858. In that year he sent to Charles
Darwin an essay announcing his discovery of the mechanism for
species change: natural selection. Darwin's friends Lyell and the
botanist Joseph Hooker proposed a "delicate arrangement": a joint
reading at the Linnean Society of his essay with Darwin's earlier
private writings on the subject. Darwin would publish On the Origin
of Species in 1859, to much acclaim; pre-empted, Wallace's first
book on evolution waited two decades, but by then he had abandoned
his original concept. On the Organic Law of Change realizes in
spirit the project Wallace left unfinished, and asserts his stature
as not only a founder of biogeography and the preeminent tropical
biologist of his day but as Darwin's equal among the pioneers of
evolution.
Alfred Russel Wallace's reputation has been based on the fact that,
at age thirty-five and stricken with malaria in the Moluccan
Islands, he stumbled independently upon on the theory of natural
selection. Andrew Berry's anthology rescue's Wallace's legacy,
showing Wallace to be far more than just the co-discoverer of
natural selection. Wallace was a brilliant and wide-ranging
scientist, a passionate social reformer and a gifted writer. The
eloquence that has made his The Malay Archipelago a classic of
travel writing is a prominent feature too of his extraordinarily
forward-thinking writing on socialism, imperialism and pacifism.
Wallace's opinions on women's suffrage, on land reform, on the
roles of the church and aristocracy in a parliamentary democracy,
on publicly funded education-to name a few of the issues he
addressed-remain as fresh and as topical today as they were when
they were written.
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