The Malay Archipelago (Summarized Edition)

The Malay Archipelago (Vol. 1&2) fuses travel narrative, natural history, and ethnography, recounting Alfred Russel Wallace's eight-year journey (1854–1862) through Borneo, Celebes, the Moluccas, and New Guinea. In lucid Victorian prose he interleaves scenes of monsoons, volcanoes, and ports with exacting notes on orangutans, birds of paradise, beetles, and plants. Attention to routes, islands, an...