Archipelago, The Islands of Indonesia: From the Nineteenth-Century Discoveries of Alfred Russel Wallace to the Fate of Forests and Reefs in the Twenty-First Century

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The Indonesian archipelago is a land of timeless natural beauty that in the twenty-first century faces unprecedented environmental degradation. It was also the biological laboratory of Alfred Russel Wallace, who, working independently of Charles Darwin, discovered the theory of evolution by natural selection. This beautifully illustrated volume is a survey of Indonesia's natural grandeur, present environmental degradation, and the history of the simultaneous theories of the origin of living things by both Wallace and Darwin. With a prologue by Edward O. Wilson, and epilogue by John C. Sawhill

Published in association with the Nature Conservancy