Wallace, Alfred Russel,  1823-1913 <br/><br/>
The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1 :  The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise; A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature 

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<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Malay_Archipelago  Release date is 2001-02-01 
<br/><br/>Produced by Martin Adamson, David Widger and Colin Choat  Produced by Martin Adamson, David Widger and Colin Choat 
<br/><br/> "The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1" by Alfred Russel Wallace is a travel narrative published in 1869. It chronicles Wallace's eight-year scientific exploration from 1854 to 1862 across Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and New Guinea. Wallace documented the physical geography, volcanoes, wildlife, and peoples of each island while collecting over 125,000 specimens. The work describes his travels across 14,000 miles, revealing biogeographic patterns that would establish the famous Wallace line dividing Asian and Australian fauna. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Natural history -- Malay Archipelago Ethnology -- Malay Archipelago Malay Archipelago -- Description and travel Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913 -- Travel -- Malay Archipelago 
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