Alfred Russell Wallace - The Malay Archipelago

WE PROVIDE BELOW A LIST OF BOOKS on the wildlife of Southeast Asia which we think Wallace would have enjoyed consulting had they been available. They can be found in book stores, websites and libraries and give solid information about the wildlife in the areas he visited. He didnt show any great interest in fish, corals etc and so books on these are not included. We also list a number of books about Wallace himself.

Wildlife

Amphibians of Java and Bali

Bats of Papua New Guinea

Birding Indonesia: A Bird-watchers Guide to the Worlds Largest Archipelago

Birds of New Guinea

Bridging Wallaces Line: T he Environmental and Cultural History and Dynamics of the SE Asian-Australian Region

Ecology of Java and Bali

Ecology of Kalimantan

Ecology of Nusa Tenggara and Maluku

Ecology of Papua

Ecology of Sulawesi

Ecology of Sumatra

Field Guide to the Butterflies of Borneo and South East Asia

Field Guide to the Frogs of Borneo

Field Guide to the Mammals of Borneo

Field Guide to the Palms of Papua New Guinea : With a Multi-Access Key and Notes on the Genera

Gingers of Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore

Guide to the Birds of Wallacea: Sulawesi, The Moluccas and Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia

Guide to the Dragonflies of Borneo : Their Identification and Biology

In Search of the Red Ape

Introduction to Tropical Rain Forests

Last Stand of the Orangutan: State of Emergency: Illegal Logging, Fire and Palm Oil in Indonesias National Parks

Mammals of New Guinea

Mountain Flora of Java

Nepenthes of Sumatra and Peninsular Malaysia

Orchids of Java

Orchids of Sumatra

Photographic Guide to Birds of Borneo, Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei and Kalimantan

Photographic Guide to Snakes and Other Reptiles of Borneo

Pocket Guide: Lizards of Borneo

Pocket Guide: Phasmids of Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore

Pocket Guide to Dragonflies of Peninsular Malaysia

Pocket Guide: Pitcher Plants of Sarawak

Proboscis Monkeys of Borneo

Rhododendrons of Sabah: Malaysian Borneo

Snakes of Sulawesi: A Field Guide to the Land Snakes of Sulawesi with Identification Keys

Stick and Leaf Insects of Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore

Swiftlets of Borneo: Builders of Edible Nests

Turtles of Borneo and Peninsular Malaysia

Wallace in Sarawak150 Years Later: Proceedings of an International Conference on Biogeography and Biodiversity

Wild Borneo: The Wildlife and Scenery of Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei and Kalimantan

Wild Indonesia

Wild Malaysia: The Wildlife and Landscapes of Peninsular Malaysia, Sarawak and Sabah

Wallace

Alfred Russel Wallace Reader: A Selection of Writings from the Field

Archipelago: The Islands of Indonesia From the Nineteenth-Century Discoveries of Alfred Russel Wallace to the Fate of Forests and Reefs in the Twenty-First Century

Darwins Moon: A Biography of Alfred Russel Wallace

Elusive Victorian : The Evolution of Alfred Russel Wallace

Heretic in Darwins Court: The Life of Alfred Russel Wallace

In Darwins Shadow: The Life and Science of Alfred Russel Wallace: A Biographical Study in the Psychology of History

Infinite Tropics: An Alfred Russel Wallace Anthology

Spice Islands Voyage: The Quest for Alfred Wallace, The Man Who Shared Darwins Discovery of Evolution

IF WE LOOK AT A GLOBE OR a map of the Eastern hemisphere, we shall perceive between Asia and Australia a number of large and small islands, forming a connected group distinct from those great masses of land, and having little connection with either of them. Situated upon the Equator, and bathed by the tepid water of the great tropical oceans, this region enjoys a climate more uniformly hot and moist than almost any other part of the globe, and teems with natural productions which are elsewhere unknown. The richest of fruits and the most precious of spices are here indigenous. It produces the giant flowers of the Rafflesia , the great green-winged Ornithoptera (princes among the butterfly tribes), the man-like Orangutan, and the gorgeous Birds of Paradise. It is inhabited by a peculiar and interesting race of mankindthe Malay, found nowhere beyond the limits of this insular tract, which has hence been named the Malay Archipelago.