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Step into a world where ruined temples, tribal memory, seafaring expeditions, and ancient rites all whisper clues about who we are and where we came from. This bookshelf ranges from the myths of magic and serpent worship to firsthand journeys across North America, Africa, the Pacific, and the ancient Mediterranean, tracing humanity through custom, language, belief, and buried history. It’s a grand expedition into the origins of culture—part detective story, part voyage, part time machine.

by H. Clay (Henry Clay) Trumbull

by Nathaniel Bright Emerson

by H. Clay (Henry Clay) Trumbull

by John L. Stephens

by Bronislaw Malinowski

by John L. Stephens

by Lewis Henry Morgan

by T. L. (Thomas Livingstone) Mitchell

by Alfred Russel Wallace

by Sir Richard Francis Burton

by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

by Zorro A. Bradley

by Sigmund Freud

by Edwin Sidney Hartland

by Hugh Miller

by Robert Stephen Hawker

by Lina Hug, Richard Stead

by J. H. (James Henry) Kerry-Nicholls

by Waheenee, Gilbert Livingstone Wilson

by H. Clay (Henry Clay) Trumbull

by Waheenee, Gilbert Livingstone Wilson

by Edward Shortland

by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

by Isabelo de los Reyes y Florentino

by Andrew Lang

by Ferdinand Blumentritt

by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

by Joaquim Carlos Paiva de Andrada

by Otto Schoetensack

by Gerhard Rohlfs

by Max B. (Max Bernhard) Weinstein

by Sven Anders Hedin

by Ernst Haeckel

by Jesse Walter Fewkes, Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier, Spain) Exposición Histórico-Americana (1892 : Madrid, United States. Commission to the Madrid Exposition (1892- )

by Jovan Zujovic

by J. M. W. (Jacob Mortimer Wier) Silver

by Dorothée Chellier

by Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland

by Charles A. Eastman

by Gilbert J. (Gilbert James) French

by Sigmund Freud

by Theodor Schvindt

by Richard Maisch

by Don G. Wyckoff, D. E. (Dennis E.) Peterson

by British Museum

by Edward B. (Edward Burnett) Tylor

by Moncure Daniel Conway

by Charles E. Moldenke

by Anonymous

by Gustaf Erik Eurén

by Stephen Salisbury

by J. M. (Joseph Mazzini) Wheeler

by Merrill J. Mattes

by Theodor Schiff

by Jan Boeke

by H. G. C. (Harald G. C.) Swayne

by Karl Alfred von Zittel

by Joseph Dalton Hooker

by Angelo De Gubernatis

by Hans Paasche

by Thomas Henry Huxley

by Elias Lönnrot

by Sir E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis) Budge

by James George Frazer

by Lafcadio Hearn

by C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine) Hartley

by Reenen J. Van Reenen

by Uno Harva

by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

by Bertrand Bareilles

by D. E. D. (David Emanuel Daniel) Europaeus

by Luciano Cordeiro

by James George Frazer

by Ambrosio Cramer

by Horatio Hale

by T. L. (Thomas Livingstone) Mitchell

by Henry Lee

by Henry W. (Henry Wetherbee) Henshaw

by Vivant Denon

by George Chetwynd Griffith

by Hermann Häfker

by R. N. (Richard Nicklin) Hall

by John L. (John Lambert) Cotter, J. Paul Hudson