The Annotated Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace [Audiobook] download free by John Van Wyhe
- Listen audiobook: The Annotated Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace
- Author: John Van Wyhe
- Release date: 2015/3/25
- Publisher: NUS PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Natural History
- ISBN: 9789971698201
- Rating: 8.96 of 10
- Votes: 652
- Review by: Serenity Phelan
- Review rating: 8.64 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/18
- Duration: 7H49M15S in 256 kbps (123.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-26
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: AU, FLAC, AIFF, OPUS, MP3, WMA, WAV, MPEG4 (compression LHA, GZ, RAR, ZIP, CAB, Z, ALZ)
- Total pages original book: 616
- Includes a PDF summary of 56 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 43M37S (11.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Wallace's Malay Archipelago is a classic account of the travels of a Victorian naturalist through island Southeast Asia. It has been loved by readers ever since its publication in 1869. Despite numerous modern reprints with appreciative introductions, this is the first - and long overdue - annotated edition in English.This edition explains, updates and corrects the original text with an historical introduction and hundreds of explanatory notes. Wallace left hundreds of people, places, publications and species unidentified. He referred to most species only with the scientific name current at the time. Whenever available, the common names for species have been provided, and scientific names updated. The content of the book has never been thoroughly analysed and compared against other contemporary sources. It turns out that the book contains many errors. This includes not just incorrect dates and place names but some of the most remarkable anecdotes; for example, the dramatic claim that tigers ''kill on an average a Chinaman every day'' in Singapore or that a Dutch Governor General committed suicide by leaping from a waterfall on Celebes.By correcting the text of the Malay Archipelago against Wallace's letters and notebooks and other contemporary sources and by enriching it with modern identifications this edition reveals Wallace's work as never before.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Asian History, Earth: Natural History General, Memoirs
- Download servers: Dropbox, BitShare, Google Drive, KATCR, Mediafire, FileHosting, KickAssTorents, Uploaded, MEGA. Compressed in LHA, GZ, RAR, ZIP, CAB, Z, ALZ
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 40.04 USD
- Dimensions: 152x229x48.26mm
- Weight: 1,065.94g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Singapore, Singapore
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