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The Malay Archipelago is a book by the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace which chronicles his scientific exploration, during the eight-year period 1854 to 1862, of the southern portion of the Malay Archipelago including Malaysia, Singapore, the islands of Indonesia, then known as the Dutch East Indies, and the island of New Guinea.
Malay Archipelago, largest group of islands in the world, consisting of the more than 17,000 islands of Indonesia and the approximately 7,000 islands of the Philippines. The regional name “East Indies” is sometimes used as a synonym for the archipelago.
The Malay Archipelago is the archipelago between Mainland Southeast Asia and Australia, and is also called Insulindia or the Indo-Australian Archipelago. The name was taken from the 19th-century European concept of a Malay race, later based on the distribution of Austronesian languages.
Written by Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago is his memoir of his travels over several years around what is now Indonesia and Malaysia and his theory of the natural history of the archipelago.
Feb 1, 2001 · The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1. The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise; A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature. Credits. Produced by Martin Adamson, David Widger and Colin Choat. Language.
Malay Archipelago, Largest group of islands in the world, located off the southeastern coast of Asia between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of the more than 13,000 islands of Indonesia and some 7,000 islands of the Philippines.
Jul 16, 2023 · The malay archipelago. by. Alfred Russel Wallace. Publication date. 1962. Collection. internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled. Contributor. Internet Archive.
Sep 24, 2014 · The Malay Archipelago, the classic account of Victorian naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace's travels through Southeast Asia, first appeared in 1869 and has been much loved by generations of readers ever since.
- Alfred Russel Wallace
Sep 28, 2020 · It is inhabited by a peculiar and interesting race of mankind—the Malay, found nowhere beyond the limits of this insular tract, which has hence been named the Malay Archipelago. To the ordinary...
The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise : a Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature. Alfred Russel Wallace. Macmillan, 1872 - Biogeography - 653...
