Wallace, Alfred Russel (Author)
van Wyhe, John (Editor)
Wallace's Malay Archipelago is a classic account of the travels of a Victorian naturalist through island Southeast Asia. It has been loved by readers ever since its publication in 1869. 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. Wallace left hundreds of people, places, publications and species unidentified. He referred to most species only with the scientific name current at the time. 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 incorrect dates and place names but some of the most remarkable anecdotes; for example, the dramatic claim that tigers ""kill on an average a Chinaman every day"" in Singapore or that a Dutch Governor General committed suicide by leaping from a waterfall on Celebes. By correcting the text of the Malay Archipelago against Wallace's letters and notebooks and other contemporary sources and by enriching it with modern identifications this edition reveals Wallace's work as never before.
...MoreReview John Abberly (2016) Review of "The Annotated Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace". Archives of Natural History (pp. 174-175).
Article
Cicuzza, Daniele;
(2014)
A Rediscovery of Alfred Russel Wallace's Fern Collection from Borneo at the Cambridge University Herbarium
(/isis/citation/CBB001421534/)
Book
Costa, James T.;
(2014)
Wallace, Darwin, and the Origin of Species
(/isis/citation/CBB001422067/)
Article
Wyhe, John van;
(2014)
A Delicate Adjustment: Wallace and Bates on the Amazon and “The Problem of the Origin of Species”
(/isis/citation/CBB001422091/)
Article
Smith, Charles H.;
(2008)
Alfred Russel Wallace, Journalist
(/isis/citation/CBB000931215/)
Article
Alves, José Jerônimo de Alencar;
(2011)
A natureza e a cultura no compasso de um naturalista do século XIX: Wallace e a Amazônia
(/isis/citation/CBB001420538/)
Article
Shira Shmuely;
(2020)
Alfred Wallace’s Baby Orangutan: Game, Pet, Specimen
(/isis/citation/CBB786517117/)
Article
Charles Rowland Twidale;
(2022)
J.R. Logan and the origin of the tropical inselbergs known as nubbins (or knolls)
(/isis/citation/CBB559354002/)
Article
John Van Wyhe;
(2016)
A rough draft of A. R. Wallace's “Sarawak law” paper
(/isis/citation/CBB849022831/)
Book
Wyhe, John Van;
(2013)
Dispelling the Darkness: Voyage in the Malay Archipelago and the Discovery of Evolution by Wallace and Darwin
(/isis/citation/CBB001212569/)
Article
Ross, Corey;
(2014)
The Tin Frontier: Mining, Empire, and Environment in Southeast Asia, 1870s--1930s
(/isis/citation/CBB001420325/)
Book
Raby, Peter;
(2001)
Alfred Russel Wallace: A Life
(/isis/citation/CBB000330247/)
Article
Timothy P. Barnard;
Joanna W. C. Lee;
(2022)
A Spiteful Campaign: Agriculture, Forests, and Administering the Environment in Imperial Singapore and Malaya
(/isis/citation/CBB114153520/)
Article
Fichman, Martin;
(2014)
Wallace's Travels and Theories in the Malay Archipelago
(/isis/citation/CBB001421081/)
Article
Baker, R. A.;
(2007)
In Search of a Naturalist -- Natural History in Warrington from 1870 to 1910 and the Records and Collections of Linnaeus Greening (1855--1927)
(/isis/citation/CBB000774082/)
Book
Darrin Lunde;
(2017)
The Naturalist: Theodore Roosevelt, A Lifetime of Exploration, and the Triumph of American Natural History
(/isis/citation/CBB801125593/)
Book
Casado de Otaola, Santos;
(2000)
Escritura de la Naturaleza: Antología de Naturalistas Españoles, 1868--1936.
(/isis/citation/CBB000358402/)
Article
Francis, Patricia;
(2015)
Philip Brookes Mason (1842–1903): Surgeon, General Practitioner and Naturalist
(/isis/citation/CBB001500444/)
Article
Fan, Fa-Ti;
(2003)
Victorian Naturalists in China: Science and Informal Empire
(/isis/citation/CBB000330698/)
Article
Dickenson, Victoria;
Heaman, Elsbeth;
(2008)
Introduction. Natural Science in the New World: The Descriptive Enterprise
(/isis/citation/CBB001211513/)
Chapter
Mallet, James;
(2008)
Wallace and the Species Concept of the Early Darwinians
(/isis/citation/CBB001035187/)
Be the first to comment!