Annotated Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace
Annotated Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace Wallace's Malay Archipelago is a classic account of the travels of a Victorian naturalist through island Southeast Asia. Despite numerous modern…
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Annotated Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace
Wallace's Malay Archipelago is a classic account of the travels of a Victorian naturalist through island Southeast Asia. Despite numerous modern reprints with appreciative introductions, this is the first - and long overdue - annotated edition in English.This edition explains, updates and corrects the original text with an historical introduction and hundreds of explanatory notes. It has been loved by readers ever since its publication in 1869.
He referred to most species only with the scientific name current at the time. Wallace left hundreds of people, places, publications and species unidentified. Whenever available, the common names for species have been provided, and scientific names updated.
The content of the book has never been thoroughly analysed and compared against other contemporary sources. It turns out that the book contains many errors. This includes not just