by Alfred Russel Wallace · Folio · tapa dura · ISBN 9788441319912
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«Viaje al archipiélago malayo» is Alfred Russel Wallace's travel account, published by Folio in hardback (315 pages, in Spanish).
After exploring the Amazon, Wallace spent eight years (1854-1862) in the Malay Archipelago studying and cataloguing its flora and fauna. He recorded his observations on the distribution of species in a chronicle that provides some of the earliest evidence for the modern theory of evolution.
Translation by María José Ania, Francisca Trepat and Marta Pérez; original English «The Malay Archipelago» (1869). Biblioteca del Viajero collection, no. 24.
A work for lovers of nature and the history of science, as well as for readers of travel literature.
Alfred Russel Wallace was an English naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, biologist and illustrator. He independently conceived the theory of evolution through natural selection; his 1858 paper on the subject was published that year alongside extracts from Charles Darwin's writings on the topic. It spurred Darwin to set aside the "big species book" he was drafting and to quickly write an abstract of it, which was published in 1859 as On the Origin of Species.
