THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO /
Alfred Russel Wallace ; Introduction by Tony Whitten
- xxii, 488 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Includes bibliographical index
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. Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) deserves equal billing with Charles Darwin for his independently drawn but parallel conclusions on the theory of evolution. Darwin himself called Wallace "generous and noble" and referred favorably to his work in later editions of The Origin of Species.
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Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913 --Malay Archipelago--Travel
Natural history --Malay Archipelago Ethnology --Malay Archipelago