ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE

Great Journeys: allowing readers to travel around the planet and back through the centuries. Whether living with Hill Dyaks or hunting Orang-Utans or sailing on a junk to the unbelievably remote Aru islands, Wallace ultimately became one of the most heroic and admirable of all scientist-explorers. Racked with fever, virtually broke and earning a precarious living through sending back to London the plumes of beautiful birds, Wallace (1823-1913) ultimately became one of the most heroic and admirable of all scientist-explorers. Whether living with Hill Dyaks or hunting Orang-Utans or sailing on a junk to the unbelievably remote Aru islands, Wallace opens our eyes to a now long vanished world. Great Journeys allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries - but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things: Great civilisations, walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains, multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered.

Con el recorrido por las islas Aru y Ke, la estadía en la isla de Nueva Guinea y la descripción minuciosa de las aves del paraíso, concluye Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) su interesante viaje por el archipielago malayo. Tras acompañar a Henry Walter Bates en su exploracion por el Amazonas, Wallace inicia un largo viaje (1845-1862) para completar y ampliar sus conocimientos sobre el principio de la seleccion natural. Seis años despues publica Viaje al Archipielago Malayo, una de las obras cimeras de la literatura de viajes y de los libros de ciencias del siglo pasado, del que hoy presentamos su quinta parte: Papuasia.

Tras acompañar a H. W. Bates en su exploración por el Amazonas, Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) decide viajar por el Archipiélago Malayo, para completar sus conocimientos sobre el principio de la seleccion natural. De resultas de este viaje (1845-62), y seis años despues, Wallace escribe Viaje al Archipielago Malayo, una de las obras cumbres de la literatura de viajes y de los libros de ciencias del siglo pasado, del que hoy presentamos sus segunda y tercera partes: Timor y Celebes.

Of all the extraordinary Victorian travelogues, The Malay Archipelago has a fair claim to be the greatest - both as a beautiful, alarming, vivid and gripping account of some eight years` travel across the entire Malay world - from Singapore to the western edges of New Guinea - and as the record of a great mind. As Wallace, often under conditions of terrible hardship and sickness, battles through jungles, lives with headhunters, and collects beetles, butterflies and birds-of-paradise, he makes discoveries about the workings of biology that have shaped our view of the world ever since.

Tras acompañar a H.W. Bates en su exploración por el Amazonas, Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) decidió viajar por el Archipiélago Malayo, para completar sus conocimientos sobre el principio de la seleccion natural. De resultas de este viaje (1854-62), y seis años despues, Wallace escribe Viaje al Archipielago Malayo, una de las obras cumbres de la literatura de viajes y de los libros de ciencias del siglo pasado, del que hoy presentamos su primera parte: Las Islas Indo-Malayas.

Tras acompañar a H.W. Bates -Lea su explotaáón por el Amazonas, Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) decide viajar por el Archipiélago Malayo, para completar sus conocimientos sobre el principio de la seleccion natural. De resultas de este viaje (1845-62), y seis años despues, Wallace escribe Viaje al Archipielago Malayo, una de las obras cumbres de la literatura de viajes y de los libros de ciencias del siglo pasado, del que hoy presentamos su cuarta parte: Molucas.

Viaje al archipielago malayo es la exhaustiva crónica de un naturalista inglés que pasó doce años en Malasia, recorriéndola y estudiando detenidamente los aspectos relativos a la geografía humana, a la flora y a la fauna, componiendo con sus acertadas observaciones un apasionante relato que le valio la medalla de oro de la Sociedad de Geografia de Paris. Entre sus descubrimientos figura haber hallado el verdadero limite entre Asia y Oceania basandose en las profundidades oceanicas.

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Gli argomenti trattati dallautore in questo libro sono: Fede vecchia e fede nuova; Dubbi e incertezze; Scienza e religione in conflitto; Felicita o miseria del genere umano; Necessita etiche di unaltra vita; Fantasmi, visioni, avvertimenti, previsioni ecc.; La credenza in Satana e le manifestazioni diaboliche; Fenomeni di magia; I miracoli non sono fatti scientifici; Lo spiritualismo moderno; Materialismo e spiritualismo; Non ce morte; La realta di una vita futura; Certezza delle prove scientifiche inoppugnabili nel campo fisico e in quello intellettuale; La levitazione del corpo umano; Fenomeni musicali, chimici, fotografici, di chiaroveggenza o auditivi, di trasfigurazione ecc. solennemente dimostrati e affermati dalla scienza in merito alle apparizioni degli spiriti; I morti sono vivi!... A che serve lo Spiritismo e che fanno gli spiriti nellaltra vita; Insegnamenti e filosofia del vero Spiritualismo.

It is with great diffidence, but under an imperative sense of duty, that the present writer accepts the opportunity afforded him of submitting to his readers some general account of a widespread movement, which, though for the most part treated with ridicule or contempt, he believes to embody truths of the most vital importance to human progress.[1] The subject to be treated is of such vast extent, the evidence concerning it is so varied and so extraordinary, the prejudices that surround it are so inveterate, that it is not possible to do it justice without entering into considerable detail. The reader who ventures on the perusal of the succeeding pages may, therefore, have his patience tried; but if he is able to throw aside his preconceived ideas of what is possible and what is impossible, and in the acceptance or rejection of the evidence submitted to him will carefully weigh and be solely guided by the nature of the concurrent testimony, the writer ventures to believe that he will not find his time and patience ill bestowed.

Il naturalista gallese Wallace con argomenti presentati come inoppugnabili, e citando con dovizia di particolari una ricca casistica, si propone di dimostrare in maniera incontrovertibile lesistenza dei fantasmi. - Contenuti del volume: Esiste unaltra vita?: Fede vecchia e fede nuova. - Dubbii e incertezze. - Scienza e religione in conflitto. - Felicita o miseria del genere umano. - Necessita etiche di unaltra vita. - Fantasmi, visioni, avvertimenti, previsioni ecc. - La credenza in Satana e le manifestazioni diaboliche. - Fenomeni di magia. - I miracoli non sono fatti scientifici. - Lo spiritualismo moderno. - Materialismo e spiritualismo. - Non ce morte. - La realta di una vita futura. - Certezza delle prove scientifiche inoppugnabili nel campo fisico ed in quello intellettuale. - La levitazione del corpo umano. - Fenomeni musicali, chimici, fotografici, di chiaroveggenza, auditivi, di trasfigurazione ecc. solennemente dimostrati ed affermati dalla scienza in merito alle apparizioni degli spiriti. - I morti sono vivi! - A che serve lo spiritismo e che fanno gli spiriti nellaltra vita. - Insegnamento e filosofia del vero Spiritualismo. - Della realta obbiettiva dei fantasmi: Delle pretese allucinazioni collettiva. - Fantasmi la cui obbiettivita e provata da rapporti definiti di spazio. - Impressioni sugli animali. - Effetti fisici prodotti e determinati dai fantasmi. - I fantasmi possono essere fotografati e sono per conseguenza realta obbiettive. - Che cosa sono i fantasmi e perche appariscono.

Il famoso studioso gallese Wallace con argomenti presentati come inoppugnabili, e citando con dovizia di particolari una ricca casistica, si propone di dimostrare in maniera incontrovertibile lesistenza dei fantasmiIndice dei contenuti:Fede vecchia e fede nuovaDubbi e incertezzeScienza e religione in conflittoFelicita o miseria del genere umanoNecessita etiche di unaltra vitaFantasmi, visioni, avvertimenti, previsioni ecc. La credenza in Satana e le manifestazioni diaboliche, Fenomeni di magiaI miracoli non sono fatti scientificiLo spiritualismo modernoMaterialismo e spiritualismoNon ce morteLa realta di una vita futuraCertezza delle prove scientifiche inoppugnabili nel campo fisico ed in quello intellettualeLa levitazione del corpo umanoFenomeni musicali, chimici, fotografici, di chiaroveggenza o auditivi, di trasfigurazione ecc. solennemente dimostrati ed affermati dalla scienza in merito alle apparizioni degli spiritiI morti sono vivi!... A che serve lo Spiritismo e che fanno gli spiriti nellaltra vitaInsegnamenti e filosofia del vero Spiritualismo

A Critical Examination Of Professor Percival Lowells Book / "Mars And Its Canals," With An Alternative Explanation

Of all the extraordinary Victorian travelogues, The Malay Archipelago has a fair claim to be the greatest - both as a beautiful, alarming, vivid and gripping account of some eight years travel across the entire Malay world - from Singapore to the western edges of New Guinea - and as the record of a great mind. As Wallace, often under conditions of terrible hardship and sickness, battles through jungles, lives with headhunters, and collects beetles, butterflies and birds-of-paradise, he makes discoveries about the workings of biology that have shaped our view of the world ever since.

First published in 1876, this two-volume treatise codifies the worlds fauna into six zoogeographic realms: Palearctic, Nearctic, Neotropical, Ethiopian, Oriental, and Australasian, and explains their boundaries through geology, climate, and barriers to dispersal. Wallace integrates exhaustive catalogues with interpretive chapters, using maps, synoptic tables, and bathymetric clues such as shallow seas to infer past connections. Extending P. L. Sclaters avian scheme to vertebrates, his methodical prose offers a Darwinian, historical account that makes biogeography a synthetic science. Wallaces argument grows from lived experience. Years in the Amazon and the Malay Archipelago, where he traced the Wallace Line between Bali and Lombok, gave him intimate knowledge of island faunas, endemism, and migration barriers. As co-formulator of natural selection and an indefatigable collector for museums, he turned field notes, specimen lists, and correspondence with Darwin, Huxley, and Sclater into a principled framework for why species occur where they do. Scholars of evolution, macroecology, and the history of science will find this foundational synthesis indispensable; conservationists and systematists will value its durable logic and global scope. Read it for empirical rigor and conceptual clarity: a master class in converting natural history into theory, and in learning to read the map of life.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

The Malay Archipelago (Vol. 1&2) fuses travel narrative, natural history, and ethnography, recounting Alfred Russel Wallaces eight-year journey (18541862) through Borneo, Celebes, the Moluccas, and New Guinea. In lucid Victorian prose he interleaves scenes of monsoons, volcanoes, and ports with exacting notes on orangutans, birds of paradise, beetles, and plants. Attention to routes, islands, and past sea levels underwrites a comparative method that culminates in the famous "Wallace Line," the faunal boundary between the Oriental and Australasian realms. Standing with Darwins Voyage of the Beagle, it is a foundational work of biogeography and a classic of scientific travel writing. Wallace, a self-taught surveyor-turned-naturalist and professional collector, reached the archipelago after an Amazon venture, financing research by selling specimens. His malarial epiphany at Ternate crystallized a theory of natural selection, shared with Darwin in 1858; these volumes distill the observational discipline and logistical improvisation that made such insights possible. Readers of evolutionary biology, island biogeography, and environmental history will find these volumes indispensable, while admirers of travel literature will relish their narrative vigor and ethnographic attentiveness. As a primary document, it rewards scholars and curious generalists seeking the origins of ecological thought.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.