The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise: A Narrative of Travel with Studies of Man and Nature

Dedication to Charles Darwin

Published by Macmillan, 1898, full leather decorative binding with raised spind & gilt scroll work, illustrated, fold-out map, index, cockling (ripples) to beginning of book decreasing with page number (not affecting text or illustratios), otherwise condition: very good.

The author,Alfred Russel Wallace,was a 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 earlier 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. 

Wallace wrote prolifically on both scientific and social issues.

His account of his adventures and observations during his explorations in Southeast Asia, The Malay Archipelago, was first published in 1869.

It continues to be both popular and highly regarded and was highly notable as a polymath.