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The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1

Gelesen von 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

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Chapter I. Physical geography

44:25

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Chapter II. Singapore

11:36

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Chapter III. Malacca and Mount Ophir

20:07

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Chapter IV. Borneo - the Orangutan

1:05:54

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Chapter V. Borneo - Journey into the Interior

49:47

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Chapter VI. Borneo - the Dyaks

15:31

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Chapter VII. Java

1:00:29

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Chapter VIII. Sumatra

29:34

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Chapter IX. Natural History of the Indo-Malay Islands

26:02

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Chapter X. Bali and Lombock

29:48

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Chapter XI. Lombock: Manners and Customs of the People

29:15

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Chapter XII. Lombock: How the Rajah took the Census

15:40

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Chapter XIII. Timor

37:43

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Chapter XIV. The Natural History of the Timor Group

22:20

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Chapter XV. Celebes

38:07

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Chapter XVI. Celebes

28:30

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Chapter XVII. Celebes

1:04:58

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Chapter XVIII. Natural History of Celebes

32:57

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Chapter XIX. Banda

14:55

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Chapter XX. Amboyna

28:22

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