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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 Waheenee, Gilbert Livingstone Wilson

by John L. Stephens

by John L. Stephens

by Bronislaw Malinowski

by Lewis Henry Morgan

by Alfred Russel Wallace

by T. L. (Thomas Livingstone) Mitchell

by Sir Richard Francis Burton

by Edwin Sidney Hartland

by Zorro A. Bradley

by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

by Sigmund Freud

by Robert Stephen Hawker

by Hugh Miller

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

by Lina Hug, Richard Stead

by Waheenee, Gilbert Livingstone Wilson

by H. Clay (Henry Clay) Trumbull

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 Ferdinand Blumentritt

by Otto Schoetensack

by Sven Anders Hedin

by Max B. (Max Bernhard) Weinstein

by Gerhard Rohlfs

by Joaquim Carlos Paiva de Andrada

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

by Ernst Haeckel

by Charles A. Eastman

by Dorothée Chellier

by Theodor Schvindt

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

by Sigmund Freud

by Gilbert J. (Gilbert James) French

by Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland

by Jovan Zujovic

by Andrew Lang

by Richard Maisch

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

by Gustaf Erik Eurén

by Edward B. (Edward Burnett) Tylor

by J. M. (Joseph Mazzini) Wheeler

by Joseph Dalton Hooker

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

by Karl Alfred von Zittel

by British Museum

by Merrill J. Mattes

by Angelo De Gubernatis

by Anonymous

by Theodor Schiff

by Thomas Henry Huxley

by C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine) Hartley

by Charles E. Moldenke

by Stephen Salisbury

by Reenen J. Van Reenen

by Uno Harva

by Elias Lönnrot

by Moncure Daniel Conway

by Lafcadio Hearn

by Bertrand Bareilles

by Hermann Häfker

by Hans Paasche

by Jan Boeke

by Luciano Cordeiro

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

by James George Frazer

by George Chetwynd Griffith

by Horatio Hale

by Vivant Denon

by Jack London

by Fritz Secker

by Ambrosio Cramer

by James George Frazer

by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

by Henry W. (Henry Wetherbee) Henshaw

by John Gabriel Stedman

by Joaquim Possidónio Narciso da Silva

by United States. National Park Service