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Natural History

The Malay Archipelago, Volume 2

by Alfred Russel Wallace

The second volume of Wallace’s eight years in the islands between Asia and Australia, which takes him to the Moluccas, New Guinea and the Aru Islands for the birds of paradise. It was from Ternate, in the Moluccas, that he sent Darwin the essay that hurried the Origin into print. The first volume is in the Map Room.

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Reading time
About 7 hr 25 min
Where to find it
The Naturalist’s Cabinet
Edition
Project Gutenberg, eBook #2539. In the public domain in the United States.

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