Alfred Russel Wallace

Author: Alfred Russel Wallace
Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
ISBN: 0199683999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
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.

The Annotated Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace

Author: Alfred Russel Wallace
Publisher: NUS Press
ISBN: 997169820X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 826

Book Description
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 - annotated edition in English. This edition explains, updates and corrects the original text with an historical introduction and hundreds of explanatory notes. Wallace left hundreds of people, places, publications and species unidentified. He referred to most species only with the scientific name current at the time. Whenever available, the common names for species have been provided, and scientific names updated. The content of the book has never been thoroughly analysed and compared against other contemporary sources. It turns out that the book contains many errors. This includes not just incorrect dates and place names but some of the most remarkable anecdotes; for example, the dramatic claim that tigers "kill on an average a Chinaman every day" in Singapore or that a Dutch Governor General committed suicide by leaping from a waterfall on Celebes. By correcting the text of the Malay Archipelago against Wallace's letters and notebooks and other contemporary sources and by enriching it with modern identifications this edition reveals Wallace's work as never before.

The Annotated Malay Archipelago

Author: Alfred Russel Wallace
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789813250239
Category : Malay Archipelago
Languages : en
Pages :

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The Malay Archipelago

Author: Alfred Russel Wallace
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 576

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The Malay Archipelago

Author: Alfred Russel Wallace
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780415289313
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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My Life

Author: Alfred Russel Wallace
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 522

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Charles Darwin In Cambridge: The Most Joyful Years

Author: John Van Wyhe
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9814583995
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 206

Book Description
Charles Darwin's years as a student at the University of Cambridge were some of the most important and formative of his life. Thereafter he always felt a particular affection for Cambridge. For a time he even considered a Cambridge professorship as a career and sent three of his sons there to be educated. Unfortunately the remaining traces of what Darwin actually did and experienced in Cambridge have long remained undiscovered. Consequently his day-to-day life there has remained unknown and misunderstood. This book is based on new research, including newly discovered manuscripts and Darwin publications, and gathers together recollections of those who knew Darwin as a student. This book therefore reveals Darwin's time in Cambridge in unprecedented detail.

Tamils and the Haunting of Justice

Author: Andrew C. Willford
Publisher: NUS Press
ISBN: 9971698390
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 338

Book Description
This compelling book explores the dilemma faced by Malaysian Tamils as they confront the moment when the plantation system where they have lived and worked for generations finally collapses. The old, long-term community-based model of rubber plantation production introduced by British and French companies in colonial Malaya has been replaced by a model based upon migrant labor, mechanization, and a gradual contraction of the plantation economy. Tamils find themselves increasingly resentful of the fact that lands that were developed and populated by their ancestors are now claimed by Malays as their own.

The Malay Archipelago (Vol. 1&2)

Author: Alfred Russel Wallace
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 515

Book Description
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.

Dispelling The Darkness: Voyage In The Malay Archipelago And The Discovery Of Evolution By Wallace And Darwin

Author: John Van Wyhe
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9814458821
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 434

Book Description
“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.