Archipelago : the islands of Indonesia : from the nineteenth-century discoveries of Alfred Russel Wa...
Archipelago : the islands of Indonesia : from the nineteenth-century discoveries of Alfred Russel Wa...
Archipelago : the islands of Indonesia : from the nineteenth-century discoveries of Alfred Russel Wallace to the fate of forests and reefs in the twenty-first century / Gavan Daws and Marty Fujita ; prologue by Edward O. Wilson ; epilogue by John C. Sawhill.
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Berkeley : University of California Press, 1999.
Date
1999.
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TQ062934
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English
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254p. : ill. ; 26 x 28cm.
Contents
Prologue / Edward O. Wilson -- 1. The Evolution of a Naturalist. The Naturalist's Cabinet -- 2. Preparing for the Archipelago. Wallace's Biological Laboratory -- 3. Borneo: Encountering the Orangutan. Evolution's Panoply. The Wild Man of the Forest -- 4. Bali, Lombock, and Celebes: Wallace Draws the...
The evolution of a naturalist -- Preparing for the Archipelago -- Borneo: encountering the Orangutan -- Bali, Lombock, and Celebes: Wallace draws the line -- The Moluccas: illness and inspiration -- The islands of Ké, Aru, and New Guinea: land of the bird of paradise -- Java, Sumatra, and home: rea...
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Berkeley : University of California Press, 1999.
Place of Publication
California
Date Published
1999.
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"Indonesia is a land of incomparable beauty and diversity. It was also the biological laboratory of Alfred Russel Wallace, who, working independently of his contemporary Charles Darwin, developed the theory of evolution by natural selection." "Wallace was a man of many parts: adventurer, explorer, collector, socialist, spiritualist, early feminist,...
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Archipelago : the islands of Indonesia : from the nineteenth-century discoveries of Alfred Russel Wallace to the fate of forests and reefs in the twenty-first century / Gavan Daws and Marty Fujita ; prologue by Edward O. Wilson ; epilogue by John C. Sawhill.
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"Published in association with the Nature Conservancy."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Transferred from NQ508.598/2.
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TQ062934
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74VvWZVeJzKZ
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvWZVeJzKZ
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0520215761 (alk. paper)
9780520215764 (alk. paper)
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508.598
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991011838939702626
