Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) was an English naturalist and explorer who came up with the idea of ‘transmutation’ (now known as evolution) at around the same time as Darwin. Biographies about his life include Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace by Wallace scholar and evolutionary biologist James Costa (2022) and In Darwin’s Shadow (2002) by American science writer Michael Shermer.
Books by Alfred Russel Wallace
“It’s wonderful. I always had a copy with me throughout my time in Indonesia. I read it cover to cover when I was younger, but when I was in Indonesia, I would flip to certain sections that correlated with my travels. He also writes about what is now Singapore, East Timor and Malaysia. He covered a lot of ground and I would use him as a sort of field guide.” Read more...
Krithika Varagur, Journalist
Interviews where books by Alfred Russel Wallace were recommended
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The Malay Archipelago
by Alfred Russel Wallace -
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The Gay Archipelago: Sexuality and Nation in Indonesia
by Tom Boellstorff -
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Twilight in Jakarta
by Claire Holt and John McGlynn (translators) & Mochtar Lubis -
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Beauty is a Wound
by Annie Tucker (translator) & Eka Kurniawan -
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Rimbaud in Java: The Lost Voyage
by Jamie James
The best books on Indonesia, recommended by Krithika Varagur
The best books on Indonesia, recommended by Krithika Varagur
It’s a beautiful nation of islands with staggering levels of biodiversity. It’s also home to more than a quarter of a billion people, many of them Muslim. And yet, it gets little regular coverage in the western media. Krithika Varagur, journalist and author of The Call, talks us through the books that most inspired and informed her as she reported on Indonesia.
