Wallace in the Malay Archipelago
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Author: Wallace, Alfred Russel
Title: The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-Utan, and the Bird of Paradise. A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature
Place Published: London
Publisher:Macmillan and Co.
Date Published: 1869
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2 volumes. xxiii, [1], 478; 524 pp. Illustrated with wood engravings, including frontispieces & title-page vignettes; several maps, two of them folding. 18.7x12.5 cm. (7½x4¾"), finely bound in half green morocco and marbled boards, gilt-stamped spines with raised bands. First Edition.
Important and influential observations, appropriately dedicated to Charles Darwin. Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, and biologist. He is best known for independently conceiving the theory of evolution through natural selection. Wallace did extensive fieldwork, first in the Amazon River basin and then in the Malay Archipelago. Formerly of the Liverpool Free Public Library with a few ink and blind stamps.
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