Medienkombination, Englisch, 1062 Seiten, Format (B × H): 141 mm x 220 mm, Gewicht: 1384 g
The Land of the Orang-Utan, and the Bird of Paradise. A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature
Medienkombination, Englisch, 1062 Seiten, Format (B × H): 141 mm x 220 mm, Gewicht: 1384 g
Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Zoology
ISBN: 978-1-108-02283-5
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913) was a British naturalist who is best remembered as the co-discoverer, with Darwin, of natural selection. His extensive fieldwork and advocacy of the theory of evolution led to him being considered one of the nineteenth century's foremost evolutionary theorists. These volumes, first published in 1869, contain Wallace's acclaimed and highly influential account of extensive fieldwork he undertook in modern Indonesia, Malaysia and New Guinea between 1854 and 1862. Wallace describes his travels around the island groups, describing the unusual animals and insects he encountered and providing ethnographic descriptions of the indigenous peoples. Wallace's analysis of biogeographic patterns in Indonesia (later termed the Wallace Line) profoundly influenced contemporary and later evolutionary and geologic thought concerning both Indonesia and other areas of the world where similar patterns were found.
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Volume 1: 1. Physical geography; 2. Singapore; 3. Malacca and Mount Ophir; 4. Borneo - the orang-utan; 5. Borneo - journey in the interior; 6. Borneo - the Dyaks; 7. Java; 8. Sumatra; 9. Natural history of the Indo-Malay islands; 10. Bali and Lombock; 11. Lombock - manners and customs; 12. How the rajah took the census; 13. Timor; 14. Natural history of the Timor Group; 15. Celebes - Macassar; 16. Celebes - Macassar; 17. Celebes - Menado; 18. Natural history of Celebes; 19. Banda; 20. Amboyna. Volume 2: 21. Ternate; 22. Gilolo; 23. Voyage to the Kaioa Islands and Batchian; 24. Batchian; 25. Ceram, Goram, and the Matabello Islands; 26. Bouru; 27. The natural history of the Moluccas; 28. Macassar to the Aru Islands in a native prau; 29. The Ke Islands; 30. The Aru Islands - residence in Dobbo; 31. The Aru Islands - journey and residence in the interior; 32. The Aru Islands - second residence in Dobbo; 33. The Aru Islands - physical geography and aspects of nature; 34. New Guinea - Dorey; 35. Voyage from Ceram to Waigiou; 36. Waigiou; 37. Voyage from Waigiou to Ternate; 38. The birds of paradise; 39. Natural history of the Papuan Islands; 40. The races of man in the Malay Archipelago; Appendix on crania and languages; Index.
