The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1, credited to Alfred Russel Wallace, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1 by Alfred Russel Wallace. Read in English by Gail Timmerman Vaughan. The Malay Archipelago is a classical Victorian work combining natural history, biogeography and ethnology while describing Wallace's travels in that region during the 1850s and early 1860s. Wallace contributed to the description of natural selection as a process in the evolution of species, along with Charles Darwin. (Summary by Gail Timmerman-Vaughan)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1
• Author credits: Alfred Russel Wallace
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 21
• Listed recording duration: 11:16:13

Catalogue topics

• Natural History
• biogeography and ethnology

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 10:13
2. 01 - Chapter I. Physical geography — 44:25
3. 02 - Chapter II. Singapore — 11:36
4. 03 - Chapter III. Malacca and Mount Ophir — 20:07
5. 04 - Chapter IV. Borneo - the Orangutan — 1:05:54
6. 05 - Chapter V. Borneo - Journey into the Interior — 49:47
7. 06 - Chapter VI. Borneo - the Dyaks — 15:31
8. 07 - Chapter VII. Java — 1:00:29
9. 08 - Chapter VIII. Sumatra — 29:34
10. 09 - Chapter IX. Natural History of the Indo-Malay Islands — 26:02
11. 10 - Chapter X. Bali and Lombock — 29:48
12. 11 - Chapter XI. Lombock: Manners and Customs of the People — 29:15
13. 12 - Chapter XII. Lombock: How the Rajah took the Census — 15:40
14. 13 - Chapter XIII. Timor — 37:43
15. 14 - Chapter XIV. The Natural History of the Timor Group — 22:20
16. 15 - Chapter XV. Celebes — 38:07
17. 16 - Chapter XVI. Celebes — 28:30
18. 17 - Chapter XVII. Celebes — 1:04:58
19. 18 - Chapter XVIII. Natural History of Celebes — 32:57
20. 19 - Chapter XIX. Banda — 14:55
21. 20 - Chapter XX. Amboyna — 28:22

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