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Alfred Russel Wallace OM FRS (8 January 1823 7 November 1913) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, and biologist. He is best...
This volume brings together the letters of the great Victorian naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) during his famous travels of 1854-62 in the Malay Archipelago (now Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia), which led him to come independently to the same conclusion as Charles Darwin: that evol...
Author
John van Wyhe, Kees Rookmaaker
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
304
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN #
0199683999
EAN Code
9780199683994
ISBN #
10
Wallace's 'Malay Archipelago' is a classic account of the travels of a Victorian naturalist through island Southeast Asia. It has been loved by readers ever since its publication in 1869. Despite numerous modern reprints with appreciative introductions, this is the first - and long overdue - annotat...
Author
Alfred Russel Wallace
Binding
Paperback
Pages
616
Publisher
NUS Press
ISBN #
997169820X
EAN Code
9789971698201
ISBN #
9
In 1858, Alfred Russel Wallace, aged thirty-five, weak with malaria, isolated in the Spice Islands, wrote to Charles Darwin: he had, he said excitedly, worked out a theory of natural selection. Darwin was aghast--his work of decades was about to be scooped. Within two weeks, his outline and Wallace'...
Author
Peter Raby
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
352
Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN #
0691006954
EAN Code
9780691006956
ISBN #
8
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 Eas...
Author
Alfred Russel Wallace
Binding
Paperback
Pages
354
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN #
1479239429
EAN Code
9781479239429
ISBN #
7
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 th...
Author
Alfred Russel Wallace
Binding
Paperback
Pages
320
Publisher
Verso
ISBN #
1859844782
EAN Code
9781859844786
ISBN #
6
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 Wal...
Author
Alfred Russel Wallace
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
592
Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN #
0674724887
EAN Code
9780674724884
ISBN #
5
This book is an illustrated version of the original The Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace “I divide the Archipelago into five groups of islands, as follows: I. THE INDO-MALAY ISLANDS: comprising the Malay Peninsula and Singapore, Borneo, Java, and Sumatra. II. THE TIMOR GROUP: comprising th...
Author
Alfred Russel Wallace
Binding
Kindle Edition
Pages
280
ISBN #
2
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
Author
Alfred Russel Wallace
Binding
Kindle Edition
Pages
495
ISBN #
4