The Annotated Malay Archipelago.
de WALLACE, ALFRED RUSSEL
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Singapore.: NUS Press.. 2014.. Edited by John van Wyhe. Folding map, maps, colour plates, black and white line drawings, xvii + 801pp, appendix, bibliography, index, paperback. "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[...]" (Publisher's description). .
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[...]" (Publisher's description). .
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- Asia Bookroom (AU)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 149772
- Título
- The Annotated Malay Archipelago.
- Autor
- WALLACE, ALFRED RUSSEL
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 997169820X
- ISBN 13
- 9789971698201
- Editorial
- NUS Press.
- Lugar de publicación
- Singapore.
- Fecha de publicación
- 2014.
- Palabras clave
- Asia, Bali, Borneo, Indonesia, Java, Lombok, Malaya, Natural History, Nature, Southeast Asia, Sumatra, Timor-Leste, Travel Writing
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