THE ATHENAEUMIsland LifeAlfred Russel Wallace
Natural History
Island Life
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textWhy do islands have the animals they have, and not others? Wallace’s answer drew on geology, ice ages and the chances of drift, and the book is one of the foundations of the study of where living things are found. The line he had drawn between the animals of Bali and those of Lombok, which still bears his name, runs through it.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 10 hr 45 min
- Where to find it
- The Naturalist’s Cabinet
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #32021. In the public domain in the United States.