THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO: A DRAMATIC TALE OF NATURAL HISTORY

APRIL 2019 |  Following in the footsteps of natural history’s quiet trailblazer, Alfred Russel Wallace, in the Malay Archipelago.

Full article online on Baku Magazine

A century and a half ago, Alfred Russel Wallace published his book, ‘The Malay Archipelago’, about his eight-year scientific journey from Singapore through Malaysia into eastern Indonesia. The stories surrounding Wallace, who – pre-Darwin – proposed his own theory of evolution, are as gripping as a hit Netflix series. The young naturalist was born into a humble farming family, but by the middle of the 19th century, he was canoeing through exotic lands of proboscis monkeys, headhunters and orangutans, and celebrating his discoveries at The British Museum, before finally fading into obscurity…

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