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The Malay Archipelago, the Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise: A Narrative of ... By Alfred Russel Wallace
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By Alfred Russel Wallace
Published 1877
Macmillan and Co.
653 pages
Original from Harvard University
Digitized Nov 8, 2006
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... however, Archipelago makes an excellent accompaniment to a book like Quammen's Song of the Dodo (or, I imagine, to Wallace's The Malay Archipelago, ...
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The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan, and the Bird of Paradise : a Narrative of ...
by Alfred Russell Wallace - 1886 - 1306 pages
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The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise, a Narrative of ...
by Alfred Russel Wallace - 1962
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Places mentioned in this book
Mataram - Page 164
Soon after passing Mataram the country began gradually to rise in gentle undulations, swelling occasionally into low hills towards the two mountainous ...
more pages: 163 168 178 180 182 183 646
Tondano - Page 244
From Lotta we had an almost continual ascent for six miles, which brought us on to the plateau of Tondano at an elevation of about 2400 feet. ...
more pages: 245 247 249 260 262 650
Tidore - Page 319
so we rept along shore to below the town, and waited till the urn of the tide should enable us to cross over to the coast if Tidore. ...
more pages: 304 305 307 308 317 320 321 371
Sorong - Page 571
Allen arrived at Sorong, and explained his intention of going to seek Birds of Paradise in the interior, innumerable objections were raised. ...
more pages: 562 570 573 635 638
Sumbawa - Page 583
The Bugis are the inhabitants of the greater parts of Celebes, and there seems to be an allied people in Sumbawa. ...
more pages: 5 154
Maykor - Page 485
On the south side of Maykor the banks are very rocky, and from thence to the southern extremity of Aru is an uninterrupted extent of rather elevated ...
more pages: 646
Singapore - Page 34
The meagreness and brevity of the sketch I have here given of my visit to Singapore and the Malay Peninsula is due to my having trusted chiefly to ...
more pages: 23 24 25 84 228 475 495 548 554 571
Kediri - Page 106
In the eastern part of Java, at Kediri and in Malang, there are equally abundant traces of antiquity, but the buildings themselves have been mostly ...
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Malang - Page 106
In the eastern part of Java, at Kediri and in Malang, there are equally abundant traces of antiquity, but the buildings themselves have been mostly ...
more pages: 645
Taxila - Page 536
It was in such places as these that I obtained many of my most beautiful small butterflies, such as Sospita statira and Taxila pulchra, the gorgeous ...
De Haan - Page 130
in the same section with Memnon), that they com-pletely deceived the Dutch entomologist De Haan, and he accordingly classed them as the same species ! ...
Rembang - Page 124
I found a man who knew the country, and was more intelligent; and he at once told me that if I wanted forest I must go to the district of Rembang, ...
Sumba - Page 548
On his return thence to Sourabaya in Java, he was to have gone to the entirely unknown Sumba or Sandal-wood Island. ...
Toong - Page 334
HKR is plenty of company, consisting of Toong men and women, all reiy neatly dressed in white and clack—a tree ftntngutan habit Quadrilles, waltzes, ...
London - Page 373
Being of the best London make, they stood the work well, and without them it would have been impossible for me to have finished my boat with half the ...
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Bonn - Page 392
It is true that there L " some approximation between the birds of the Sula Island^ (where the babirusa is also found) and those of Bonn*/ which seems ...
Bombay - Page 554
On my way home I stayed a week at Bombay, to break the journey, and to lay in a fresh stock of bananas for my birds. ...
Nagasaki - Page 294
The doctor made the voyage to Jeddo by land from Nagasaki, and is well acquainted with the character, manners, and customs of the people of Japan, ...
Roma - Page 285
Turning off towards Banda we passed Pulo-Cambing, Wetter, and Roma, all of which are desolate and barren volcanic islands, almost as uninviting as ...
Philadelphia - Page 560
Cassin from a native skin in the rich museum of Philadelphia. The same bird was afterwards named " Diphyllodes respublica" by Prince Buonaparte, ...
Marseilles - Page 555
During the night journey from Marseilles to Paris it was a sharp frost; yet they arrived in London in perfect health, and lived in the Zoological ...
Calcutta - Page 241
Keys, a native of Menado, but who was educated at Calcutta, and to whom Dutch, English, and Malay were equally mother-tongues. ...
Venice - Page 362
Kwammer and Keffing, both thickly inhabited, came in sight of the little town of Kil- waru, which appears to rise out of the sea like a rustic Venice. ...
Paris - Page 555
During the night journey from Marseilles to Paris it was a sharp frost; yet they arrived in London in perfect health, and lived in the Zoological ...
more pages: 239
Brasilia - Page 581
Among butterflies we have the genera Mynes, Hypocista, and Elodina, and the curious eye- spotted Brasilia, of which last a single species is found in ...
Lima - Page 630
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