The Land of the Orang-utan, and the Bird of Paradise A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature
Edited and Introduced by Andrew Berry
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First published in Great Britain, in two volumes, by Macmillan & Co. 1869 This edition, reset from the original 1869 edition and including many of the original illustrations and maps, first published by Penguin Classics 2014
Cover: Bird of Paradise, colour litho from Birds of New Guinea by John Gould and William Hart. (Natural History Museum, London, UK / The Bridgeman Art Library)
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ISBN: 978-0-141-39441-1
Contents
Note on the Text
Chronology
Timeline of Wallace’s Travels
Map of the Malay Archipelago
Preface
Introduction
THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO
Volume One
I Physical Geography
INDO-MALAY ISLANDS
II Singapore
III Malacca and Mount Ophir
IV Borneo—The Orang-Utan
V Borneo—Journey in the Interior
VI Borneo—The Dyaks
VII Java
VIII Sumatra
IX Natural History of the Indo-Malay Islands
THE TIMOR GROUP
X Bali and Lombock
XI Lombock: Manners and Customs of the People
XII Lombock: How the Rajah Took the Census
XIII Timor
XIV The Natural History of the Timor Group
THE CELEBES GROUP
XV Celebes (Macassar)
XVI Celebes (Macassar)
XVII Celebes (Menado)
XVIII Natural History of Celebes
THE MOLUCCAS
XIX Banda
XX Amboyna
Volume Two
XXI The Moluccas—Ternate
XXII Gilolo
XXIII Ternate to the Kaióa Islands and Batchian
XXIV Batchian
XXV Ceram, Goram, and the Matabello Islands
XXVI Bouru
XXVII The Natural History of the Moluccas
THE PAPUAN GROUP
XXVIII Macassar to the Aru Islands in a Native Prau
XXIX The Ké Islands
XXX The Aru Islands—Residence in Dobbo
XXXI The Aru Islands—Journey and Residence in the Interior
XXXII The Aru Islands—Second Residence at Dobbo
XXXIII The Aru Islands—Physical Geography and Aspects of Nature
XXXIV New Guinea—Dorey
XXXV Voyage from Ceram to Waigiou
XXXVI Waigiou
XXXVII Voyage from Waigiou to Ternate
XXXVIII The Birds of Paradise
XXXIX The Natural History of the Papuan Islands
XL The Races of Man in the Malay Archipelago
Further Reading
Note
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THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE (1823–1913) was, with Charles Darwin, the co-discoverer of the theory of evolution by natural selection. With four years’ intense field experience in the Amazon Basin and eight more among the islands of South-East Asia, he was also the pre-eminent tropical biologist of his day. He had a particular interest in the factors governing the geographical distribution of species, and famously discovered what would come to be called ‘Wallace’s Line’, the biological discontinuity between the Asian and Australasian faunas. He is regarded today as the founder of the field of evolutionary biogeography. His account of his 1854–62 travels across South-East Asia, from Singapore to western New Guinea, The Malay Archipelago, was first published in 1869.
His other major works include the monumental Geographical Distribution of Animals and Island Life, which combined geology, geography and biology in innovative ways that remain topical today. Wallace’s wide-ranging interests and strongly held opinions migrated far beyond biology, coming to encompass spiritualism, socialism and a host of other issues on which Wallace invariably identified passionately and eloquently with the underdog. Throughout his long life he continued to research, write and campaign on an extraordinary range of subjects.
ANDREW BERRY is currently a lecturer in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. His research has combined field and laboratory methods to detect positive Darwinian selection (that is, adaptive evolution) at the molecular level in natural populations. In addition to technical articles, he has published in the London Review of Books, Slate and elsewhere. He has published two books: Infinite Tropics: An Alfred Russel Wallace Anthology (2002) and DNA: The Secret of Life with James D. Watson (2003).
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