The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1


Read by 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)

Chapters

Preface 10:13 Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan
Chapter I. Physical geography 44:25 Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan
Chapter II. Singapore 11:36 Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan
Chapter III. Malacca and Mount Ophir 20:07 Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan
Chapter IV. Borneo - the Orangutan 1:05:54 Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan
Chapter V. Borneo - Journey into the Interior 49:47 Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan
Chapter VI. Borneo - the Dyaks 15:31 Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan
Chapter VII. Java 1:00:29 Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan
Chapter VIII. Sumatra 29:34 Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan
Chapter IX. Natural History of the Indo-Malay Islands 26:02 Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan
Chapter X. Bali and Lombock 29:48 Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan
Chapter XI. Lombock: Manners and Customs of the People 29:15 Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan
Chapter XII. Lombock: How the Rajah took the Census 15:40 Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan
Chapter XIII. Timor 37:43 Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan
Chapter XIV. The Natural History of the Timor Group 22:20 Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan
Chapter XV. Celebes 38:07 Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan
Chapter XVI. Celebes 28:30 Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan
Chapter XVII. Celebes 1:04:58 Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan
Chapter XVIII. Natural History of Celebes 32:57 Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan
Chapter XIX. Banda 14:55 Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan
Chapter XX. Amboyna 28:22 Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan