THE story of Alfred Russel Wallace is a story about the unwavering tenaciousness of a scholar who was also an explorer. Year after year he spent his life exploring the corners of the world. In his wanderings Wallace crossed the oceans then zigzagged through the dense forests of the interior in the hinterlands of the Amazon, Sumatra, Borneo and the Celebes right down to Papua.

This intensive exploring was the base from which emerged one of the gr