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The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1

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The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1

Alfred Russel Wallace

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Alfred Russel Wallace sailed the great island world and returned with a theory that shook biology. This first volume runs from Singapore and Malacca into Borneo, where he tracks the orangutan through the interior. Exploration, natural history, and the birth of ideas. One of the finest travel narratives in all of science. Voyage into the archipelago that helped explain the origin of species.

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33 chapters

  1. 1THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO, VOLUME I. (of II.)
  2. 2PREFACE.
  3. 3THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO.
  4. 4CHAPTER I. PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY.
  5. 5CHAPTER II. SINGAPORE.
  6. 6CHAPTER III. MALACCA AND MOUNT OPHIR.
  7. 7(JULY TO SEPTEMBER, 1854.)
  8. 8CHAPTER IV. BORNEO—THE ORANGUTAN.
  9. 9CHAPTER V. BORNEO—JOURNEY INTO THE INTERIOR.
  10. 10(NOVEMBER 1855 TO JANUARY 1856.)
  11. 11CHAPTER VI. BORNEO—THE DYAKS.
  12. 12CHAPTER VII. JAVA.
  13. 13CHAPTER VIII. SUMATRA.
  14. 14(NOVEMBER 1861 to JANUARY 1862.)
  15. 15CHAPTER IX. NATURAL HISTORY OF THE INDO-MALAY ISLANDS.
  16. 16CHAPTER X. BALI AND LOMBOCK.
  17. 17(JUNE, JULY, 1856.)
  18. 18CHAPTER XI. LOMBOCK: MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE PEOPLE.

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