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The Spice Islands Voyage: In Search of Wallace

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The Spice Islands Voyage: In Search of Wallace

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In 1858, Alfred Wallace, while laid up with malaria in the middle of his long Moluccan sojourn, wrote a brief essay which made its way to Charles Darwin, who had been searching for the solution to a problem for two decades. When Darwin finally published ''On the Origin of Species'' a couple of years later, he gave credit to Wallace, who nonetheless faded, unprotesting, into relative obscurity. Wallace had already been on one major expedition before his Indonesian journey, a voyage to Brazil, whi

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