The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1

Alfred Russel Wallace (1823 - 1913)

The Malay Archipelago is a classical Victorian work combining natural history, biogeography and ethnology while describing Wallace's travels in that region during the 1850s and early 1860s. Wallace contributed to the description of natural selection as a process in the evolution of species, along with Charles Darwin. (Summary by Gail Timmerman-Vaughan)

Genre(s): Life Sciences, Exploration

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 00 Preface Gail Timmerman Vaughan
00:10:13
Play 01 Chapter I. Physical geography Gail Timmerman Vaughan
00:44:25
Play 02 Chapter II. Singapore Gail Timmerman Vaughan
00:11:36
Play 03 Chapter III. Malacca and Mount Ophir Gail Timmerman Vaughan
00:20:07
Play 04 Chapter IV. Borneo - the Orangutan Gail Timmerman Vaughan
01:05:54
Play 05 Chapter V. Borneo - Journey into the Interior Gail Timmerman Vaughan
00:49:47
Play 06 Chapter VI. Borneo - the Dyaks Gail Timmerman Vaughan
00:15:31
Play 07 Chapter VII. Java Gail Timmerman Vaughan
01:00:29
Play 08 Chapter VIII. Sumatra Gail Timmerman Vaughan
00:29:34
Play 09 Chapter IX. Natural History of the Indo-Malay Islands Gail Timmerman Vaughan
00:26:02
Play 10 Chapter X. Bali and Lombock Gail Timmerman Vaughan
00:29:48
Play 11 Chapter XI. Lombock: Manners and Customs of the People Gail Timmerman Vaughan
00:29:15
Play 12 Chapter XII. Lombock: How the Rajah took the Census Gail Timmerman Vaughan
00:15:40
Play 13 Chapter XIII. Timor Gail Timmerman Vaughan
00:37:43
Play 14 Chapter XIV. The Natural History of the Timor Group Gail Timmerman Vaughan
00:22:20
Play 15 Chapter XV. Celebes Gail Timmerman Vaughan
00:38:07
Play 16 Chapter XVI. Celebes Gail Timmerman Vaughan
00:28:30
Play 17 Chapter XVII. Celebes Gail Timmerman Vaughan
01:04:58
Play 18 Chapter XVIII. Natural History of Celebes Gail Timmerman Vaughan
00:32:57
Play 19 Chapter XIX. Banda Gail Timmerman Vaughan
00:14:55
Play 20 Chapter XX. Amboyna Gail Timmerman Vaughan
00:28:22