Australasia
By: edited and extended by Alfred R. Wallace, ... ; With ethnological appendix by A.H. Keane, ...
Contributors: Hellwald, Friedrich von, 1842-1892.; Keane, A. H. 1833-1912.
Series: Stanford's compendium of geography and travel
Publisher: Edward Stanford, ...
Published: 1879
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 672
Subjects: Ethnology.; Language and languages.; Australasia -- Description and travel.; Oceania -- Description and travel.; Malay Archipelago -- Description and travel.
Other titles: Philology and ethnology of the interoceanic races.
Notes: "List of works used in preparing this volume": p. [vii]-viii.
"Based on Hellwald's 'Die Erde und ihre Völker' translated by A. H. Keane, ..." Half title. The preface indicates that the work was "practically rewritten" by Wallace.
Includes index.
"Appendix.  Philology and ethnology of the interoceanic races.  By A.H. Keane": p. [593]-659; includes "Alphabetical list of the interoceanic races and languages".
Table of contents: title: Australasia; title: Australia; title: The Malay Archipelago,; title: Melanesia; title: Mikronesia; title: New Zealand.