The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1 by Alfred Russel Wallace

First published in the year 1869, the present book ‘The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1’ by the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, chronicles his scientific exploration, during the eight-year period 1854 to 1862, of the southern portion of the Malay Archipelago including Malaysia, Singapore, the islands of Indonesia, then known as the Dutch East Indies, and the island of New Guinea.