TY - BOOK AU - Wallace,Alfred Russel TI - THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO SN - 9780794605636 U1 - 915.980422 23 PY - 2008/// CY - Singapore PB - Periplus Editions KW - Wallace, Alfred Russel, KW - Natural history KW - Malay Archipelago KW - Ethnology KW - Description and travel N1 - Includes bibliographical index N2 - 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 ER -