NMLP P-035957 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-09
The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise
Alfred Russel Wallace · Macmillan and Co. (London) · 1869
The work recounts Wallace's eight years (1854-1862) of travel and natural-history collecting across the Malay Archipelago, during which he arrived independently at the theory of natural selection while feverish on the island of Ternate in February 1858
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-035957 for "The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise" by Alfred Russel Wallace (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-035957, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).