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Anyone who has ever taken an sort of interest in the great debate of last century on the theories c evolution is bound to have heard c Alfred Russel Wallace.
But it's not so likely that he or sh will ever have read a line c Wallace's works because these hav not been reprinted with anything lik the frequency of those of fellov evolutionist Charles Darwin, fc example.
Now, however, Wallace's moi famous book, "The Malay Arch pelago", has been republished fc the first time since 1922 by Dove Publications Inc., of New York, i $2 a copy in a strong paperbac edition.
This book, which was first pul lished in 1869, is a record of eigl years of travel in what Wallace calle "the land of the orang-utan and th bird of paradise"—i.e., the area b< tween Malay and Sumatra in th west and the "bird's head" regio of West New Guinea in the east.
The book combines adventun natural history, linguistics and ar
thropology.—RL.