The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1
Alfred Russel Wallace
Lu par Gail Timmerman Vaughan
The Malay Archipelago is a classical Victorian work combining natural history, biogeography and ethnology while describing Wallace's travels in that region during the 1850s and early 1860s. Wallace contributed to the description of natural selection as a process in the evolution of species, along with Charles Darwin. (Summary by Gail Timmerman-Vaughan) (11 hr 16 min)
Chapitres
Preface | 10:13 | Lu par Gail Timmerman Vaughan |
Chapter I. Physical geography | 44:25 | Lu par Gail Timmerman Vaughan |
Chapter II. Singapore | 11:36 | Lu par Gail Timmerman Vaughan |
Chapter III. Malacca and Mount Ophir | 20:07 | Lu par Gail Timmerman Vaughan |
Chapter IV. Borneo - the Orangutan | 1:05:54 | Lu par Gail Timmerman Vaughan |
Chapter V. Borneo - Journey into the Interior | 49:47 | Lu par Gail Timmerman Vaughan |
Chapter VI. Borneo - the Dyaks | 15:31 | Lu par Gail Timmerman Vaughan |
Chapter VII. Java | 1:00:29 | Lu par Gail Timmerman Vaughan |
Chapter VIII. Sumatra | 29:34 | Lu par Gail Timmerman Vaughan |
Chapter IX. Natural History of the Indo-Malay Islands | 26:02 | Lu par Gail Timmerman Vaughan |
Chapter X. Bali and Lombock | 29:48 | Lu par Gail Timmerman Vaughan |
Chapter XI. Lombock: Manners and Customs of the People | 29:15 | Lu par Gail Timmerman Vaughan |
Chapter XII. Lombock: How the Rajah took the Census | 15:40 | Lu par Gail Timmerman Vaughan |
Chapter XIII. Timor | 37:43 | Lu par Gail Timmerman Vaughan |
Chapter XIV. The Natural History of the Timor Group | 22:20 | Lu par Gail Timmerman Vaughan |
Chapter XV. Celebes | 38:07 | Lu par Gail Timmerman Vaughan |
Chapter XVI. Celebes | 28:30 | Lu par Gail Timmerman Vaughan |
Chapter XVII. Celebes | 1:04:58 | Lu par Gail Timmerman Vaughan |
Chapter XVIII. Natural History of Celebes | 32:57 | Lu par Gail Timmerman Vaughan |
Chapter XIX. Banda | 14:55 | Lu par Gail Timmerman Vaughan |
Chapter XX. Amboyna | 28:22 | Lu par Gail Timmerman Vaughan |