Garuda Indonesia Colours Magazine April 2017 | Page 114

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Travel | Ternate to Sorong
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“Oh, how I wish I had known
Alfred Russel Wallace.” That
was my overwhelming feeling
after first reading The Malay
Archipelago, the book he wrote
about his travels through
Indonesia and Malaysia
between 1854 and 1862.
It was first published in 1869 and has never
been out of print. The book is a delightful
travelogue of the eight years Wallace spent
collecting specimens of mammals, bird