num_pages: 668
description: Wallace's The Malay Archipelago is undoubtedly the classic work on the flora, fauna, and peoples of the area which is now called Indonesia. Based largely on field journals Wallace kept during the eight years he spent in Malaysia and Indonesia between 1854 and 1862, this work ranks as thegreatest travel book on the region and, in its analysis of the geographical distribution of animals, as one of the most important natural history books of the 19th century.
language: English
title: The Malay Archipelago
titlecomplete: The Malay Archipelago (Oxford in Asia Hardback Reprints)
characters: Alfred Russel Wallace
genres: Classics, Nature, Biology, History, Science, Natural History, Asia, Nonfiction, Travel, Evolution
ratings_count: 858
places: Malaysia, Southeast Asia
series: The Malay Archipelago
publisher: Oxford University Press