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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.
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The Malay Archipelago is the classic work on the flora, fauna, and peoples of the area now known as Indonesia. Based largely on four field journals which Wallace kept during the eight years he spent in Malaysia and Indonesia between 1854 and 1862, it ranks as the greatest travel book on the region and, in its analysis of the geographical distribution of animals, is one of the most important natural history books of the nineteenth century. Wallace's travels were mainly to obtain natural history specimens for his own and other collections. He collected 125,660 in all, mostly beetles, butterflies and birds, in the face of considerable difficulties. This book was originally published in 1869, seven years after Wallace's return from the area, and the new edition has an informative introduction by Dr John Bustin.
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First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Dedicated to Charles Darwin, The Malay Archipelago- the land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise is a narrative of travel with studies of man and nature. This is part one of two volumes.
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Dedicated to Charles Darwin, The Malay Archipelago- the land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise is a narrative of travel with studies of man and nature. This is part two of two volumes.
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The Malay Archipelago is a vivid, momentous and far-reaching account of Alfred Russel Wallace's eight-year exploration of South East Asia in the 1850s and 60s. Wallace's travels led him to conceive of evolution through natural selection independently of Charles Darwin, and their theories were jointly proposed in a paper to the Linnean Society in 1858. During his travels he accumulated an astonishing 125,660 specimens, including more than 5,000 species new to western science, establishing his reputation as the 19th century's leading expert on the geographical distribution of animal species and the "father of biogeography". This handsome facsimile has been reproduced from Wallace's personal copy of the 10th edition which includes a number of handwritten annotations made by Wallace himself. This edition was published in 1890, 28 years after the first, and has additional information from subsequent collectors and footnotes in which Wallace corrects some earlier errors. It features illustrations by contemporary artists Thomas Baines, Walter Hood Fitch, John Gerrard Keulemans, E. W.Robinson, Joseph Wolf and T. W. Wood, and includes two fold-out colour maps of the archipelago, one showingthe routes he took and the other the volcanic belts in the region. There is also a new foreword by Sandra Knapp,President of the Linnean Society (2018-2022).
On the Organic Law of Change
A Facsimile Edition and Annotated Transcription of Alfred Russel Wallace's Species Notebook of 1855-1859
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
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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.
Del 1 - Foundations in Biological Thought
Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection
A Series of Essays
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
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Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro
With an Account of the Native Tribes, and Observations of the Climate, Geology, and Natural History of the Amazon Valley
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
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Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro
With an Account of the Native Tribes, and Observations of the Climate, Geology, and Natural History of the Amazon Valley
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Island Life; or, the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras, Including a Revision and Attempted Solution of the Problem of Geological Climates
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
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Island Life; or, the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras, Including a Revision and Attempted Solution of the Problem of Geological Climates
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
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World of Life; a Manifestation of Creative Power, Directive Mind and Ultimate Purpose
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
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World of Life; a Manifestation of Creative Power, Directive Mind and Ultimate Purpose
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
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Malayische Archipel. Die Heimath des Orang-Utan und des Paradiesvogels. Reiseerlebnisse und Studien über Land und Leute
Inbunden, Tyska, 2022
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Malayische Archipel. Die Heimath des Orang-Utan und des Paradiesvogels. Reiseerlebnisse und Studien über Land und Leute
Häftad, Tyska, 2022
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Malayische Archipel. Die Heimath des Orang-Utan und des Paradiesvogels. Reiseerlebnisse und Studien über Land und Leute; Volume 1
Inbunden, Tyska, 2022
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Malayische Archipel. Die Heimath des Orang-Utan und des Paradiesvogels. Reiseerlebnisse und Studien über Land und Leute; Volume 1
Häftad, Tyska, 2022
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