The Malay Archipelago
Author | : Alfred Russel Wallace |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 1898 |
Genre | : Ethnology |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Alfred Russel Wallace |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 1898 |
Genre | : Ethnology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Van Wyhe |
Publisher | : World Scientific |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2013-05-10 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9814458821 |
“The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the road to the heart of the species problem lay through them, until Darwin and Wallace dispelled the darkness.”T H Huxley (1887)Darwin is one of the most famous scientists in history. But he was not alone. Comparatively forgotten, Wallace independently discovered evolution by natural selection in Southeast Asia. This book is based on the most thorough research ever conducted on Wallace's voyage. Closely connected, but worlds apart, Darwin and Wallace's stories hold many surprises. Did Darwin really keep his theory a secret for twenty years? Did he plagiarise Wallace? Were their theories really the same? How did Wallace hit on the solution, and on which island? This book reveals for the first time the true story of Darwin, Wallace and the discovery that would change our understanding of life on Earth forever.
Author | : Alfred Russel Wallace |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press (UK) |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2013-10-24 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0199683999 |
This volume of newly transcribed letters documents the travels of the Victorian naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace in the Malay Archipelago, during which he famously discovered natural selection independently of Darwin. Vivid with detail, the letters are fully annotated and accompanied by an introduction with a newly reconstructed itinerary.
Author | : Willem Pieter Groeneveldt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 1876 |
Genre | : Chinese |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Henry Nicholas Ridley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Botany |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Osman Bakar |
Publisher | : Istac-Iium Publications |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2021-04-13 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789839379709 |
In this book fourteen leading scholars and intellectual-activists provide a collective treatment of the theme of colonialism in the Malay Archipelago from the as yet little explored perspective of civilisational encounters. The centuries-long Western colonial presence in the Archipelago had generated both peaceful and violent encounters that were to prove consequential on the civilisational history of the region. The book's chapters attempt to present new insights into the nature and multidimensional character of these civilisational encounters and their significance for the life and thought of contemporary Malay Archipelago that now comprises the modern nation-states of Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, The Philippines, Singapore, and Timor-Leste.
Author | : Peter Raby |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2020-12-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0691222436 |
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's paper were presented jointly in London. A year later, with Wallace still on the opposite side of the globe, Darwin published On the Origin of Species. This new biography of Wallace traces the development of one of the most remarkable scientific travelers, naturalists, and thinkers of the nineteenth century. With vigor and sensitivity, Peter Raby reveals his subject as a courageous, unconventional explorer and a man of exceptional humanity. He draws more extensively on Wallace's correspondence than has any previous biographer and offers a revealing yet balanced account of the relationship between Wallace and Darwin. Wallace lacked Darwin's advantages. A largely self-educated native of Wales, he spent four years in the Amazon in his mid-twenties collecting specimens for museums and wealthy patrons, only to lose his finds in a shipboard fire in the mid-Atlantic. He vowed never to travel again. Yet two years later he was off to the East Indies on a vast eight-year trek; here he discovered countless species and identified the point of divide between Asian and Australian fauna, 'Wallace's Line.' After his return, he plunged into numerous controversies and published regularly until his death at the age of ninety, in 1913. He penned a classic volume on his travels, founded the discipline of biogeography, promoted natural selection, and produced a distinctive account of mind and consciousness in man. Sensitive and self-effacing, he was an ardent socialist--and spiritualist. Wallace is one of the neglected giants of the history of science and ideas. This stirring biography--the first for many years--puts him back at center stage, where he belongs.
Author | : Alfred Russel Wallace |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 515 |
Release | : 2023-11-14 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
The Malay Archipelago is a book by the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace which 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, and the island of New Guinea. The book describes each island that he visited in turn, giving a detailed account of its physical and human geography, its volcanoes, and the variety of animals and plants that he found and collected. At the same time, he describes his experiences, the difficulties of travel, and the help he received from the different peoples that he met.
Author | : Paul Michel Munoz |
Publisher | : Didier Millet,Csi |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Archipelagoes |
ISBN | : 9789814610117 |
An approachable and well-researched history of the Malay Peninsula and insular Southeast Asia from its earliest times to the 16th century.
Author | : Alfred Russel Wallace |
Publisher | : Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2016-05-25 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1473362628 |
This early work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1869 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Malay Archipelago' is a work that chronicles the observations of Wallace during his time in Asia, and includes chapters on Java, Bali, Borneo, and the wildlife and human inhabitants who resided there. Alfred Russel Wallace was born on 8th January 1823 in the village of Llanbadoc, in Monmouthshire, Wales. Wallace was inspired by the travelling naturalists of the day and decided to begin his exploration career collecting specimens in the Amazon rainforest. He explored the Rio Negra for four years, making notes on the peoples and languages he encountered as well as the geography, flora, and fauna. While travelling, Wallace refined his thoughts about evolution and in 1858 he outlined his theory of natural selection in an article he sent to Charles Darwin. Wallace made a huge contribution to the natural sciences and he will continue to be remembered as one of the key figures in the development of evolutionary theory.