An inordinate fondness for beetles : campfire conversations with Alfred Russell Wallace on people and nature based on common travel in the Malay archipelago in SearchWorks catalog

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QL573 .S63 2012	Available

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Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 414-416).
Publisher's Summary: Campfire conversations with Alfred Russel Wallace on people and nature based on his travel in the Malay archipelago: the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise. Part travelogue, part biography, this book charts the discoveries of the famous naturalist/explorer Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913). Born in 1823, Wallace devoted much of his time to fieldwork, first in the Amazon and then in Asia. During his travels he identified what is now known as the Wallace Line, which divides the flora and fauna of Asia from that which was hitherto a combination of both Australian and Asian origin. He is, of course, notable for independently developing the theory of evolution due to natural selection (but was perhaps deliberately sidelined by Darwin). He was a voracious collector - he trapped, skinned, and pickled 125,660 specimens, including 212 new species of birds and 900 new species of beetles during his long and productive life.
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Subject: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913 > Travel > Malay Archipelago.; Sochaczewski, Paul Spencer > Travel > Malay Archipelago.; Sochaczewski, Paul Spencer.; Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913.; Sochaczewski, Paul Spencer.; Beetles > Pictorial works.; Natural history > Malay Archipelago.; Natural history > Singapore.; Ethnology > Malay Archipelago.; Malay Archipelago > Description and travel.; Singapore > Description and travel.; Beetles.; Ethnology.; Natural history.; Travel.; Asia > Malay Archipelago.; Singapore.