Influence
The novelist Joseph Conrad was influenced by the Malay Archipelago, using it as a source for novels including Lord Jim.
More recently, the book has influenced The Song of the Dodo by David Quammen (1997), which discussed Wallace in the context of island biogeography; The Spice Islands Voyage by Tim Severin (1997) retraced Wallace's travels; and Archipelago: The Islands of Indonesia, by Gavan Daws (1999) which compared the environment described by Wallace with the state of the archipelago at that time. The Malay Archipelago is considered to be one of the most influential books ever written about the Indonesian islands.
The English comedian Bill Bailey travelled around Indonesia in the footsteps of Wallace for a two-part television programme on BBC Two, first broadcast in 2013, the centenary of Wallace's death.
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