
Alfred Russel Wallace was a scientist who was the co-originator of the theory of Evolution with Charles Darwin, but whose name was forgotten. This is the story of an extraordinary life and adventure told in the form of a fiction biography. 1858: The Malay Archipelago...

1858: The Malay Archipelago. In the remote tropics a young British naturalist, Alfred Wallace, toils in obscurity. He collects specimens: beetles, moths, ants and birds that sell for pennies apiece in England.
One night, suffering from fever and hallucination, Wallace...