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Archaeology & Anthropology
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.
109 Audiobooks
The Human Drift
by Jack London
On the Method of Zadig Essay #1 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition"
by Thomas Henry Huxley
The Life of Sir Richard Burton
by Thomas Wright
An Account of Egypt
by Herodotus
Atlantis: The Antedeluvian World
by Ignatius Donnelly
The Prehistoric World; Or, Vanished Races
by Emory Adams Allen
West African studies
by Mary Henrietta Kingsley
Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples
by marquis de Jean-François-Albert du Pouget Nadaillac
Legends of Loudoun An account of the history and homes of a border county of Virginia's Northern Neck
by Harrison Williams
The Bontoc Igorot
by Albert Ernest Jenks
The Discovery of the Source of the Nile
by John Hanning Speke
The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1 The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise; A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature
by Alfred Russel Wallace
Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature
by Thomas Henry Huxley
The Pagan Tribes of Borneo A Description of Their Physical Moral and Intellectual Condition, with Some Discussion of Their Ethnic Relations
by Charles Hose, William McDougall
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
by kniaz Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
Legends of Babylon and Egypt in Relation to Hebrew Tradition
by L. W. (Leonard William) King
The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos
by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
The Malay Archipelago, Volume 2 The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise; A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature
by Alfred Russel Wallace
The Scientific Monthly, October to December, 1915
by Various Authors
The Chinese Boy and Girl
by Isaac Taylor Headland
A Manual of the Antiquity of Man
by J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean
The Euahlayi Tribe: A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia
by K. Langloh (Katie Langloh) Parker
The Soul of the Far East
by Percival Lowell
The Evolution of Theology: an Anthropological Study Essay #8 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition"
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Criminal Sociology
by Enrico Ferri
On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals
by Thomas Henry Huxley
On Some Fossil Remains of Man
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Hasisadra's Adventure Essay #7 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition"
by Thomas Henry Huxley
A Racial Study of the Fijians
by Norman E. Gabel
Griechische Altertumskunde
by Richard Maisch
Geological Contemporaneity and Persistent Types of Life
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Ismailia
by Sir Samuel White Baker
The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile, And Explorations of the Nile Sources
by Sir Samuel White Baker
Note on the Resemblances and Differences in the Structure and the Development of the Brain in Man and Apes
by Thomas Henry Huxley, Charles Darwin
The Progress of Ethnology An Account of Recent Archaeological, Philological and Geographical Researches in Various Parts of the Globe, Tending to Elucidate the Physical History of Man
by John Russell Bartlett
Kino und Erdkunde Lichtbühnen-Bibliothek Nr. 7
by Hermann Häfker
Reise in die Aequinoctial-Gegenden des neuen Continents. Band 4.
by Alexander von Humboldt
Abrégé de l'Histoire Générale des Voyages (Tome 4)
by Jean-François de La Harpe
The Ancient Phonetic Alphabet of Yucatan
by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton
The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion
by James George Frazer
Russia
by Donald Mackenzie Wallace
Wanderings among South Sea Savages and in Borneo and the Philippines
by H. Wilfrid Walker
The Fijians: A Study of the Decay of Custom
by Basil Thomson
The Land of Midian (Revisited) — Volume 1
by Sir Richard Francis Burton
The Antiquity of Man
by Sir Charles Lyell
The Zincali: An Account of the Gypsies of Spain
by George Borrow
Travels in West Africa: Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons
by Mary Henrietta Kingsley
Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland
by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3
by Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo, Volume 2
by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Indian Boyhood
by Charles A. Eastman
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo, Volume 1
by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1
by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Travels in the Interior of Africa — Volume 01
by Mungo Park
Myth, Ritual and Religion, Vol. 1 (of 2)
by Andrew Lang
Philological Proofs of the Original Unity and Recent Origin of the Human Race
by Arthur James Johnes
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2
by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2
by Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland
The Natural History of Wiltshire
by John Aubrey
Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia From Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845
by Ludwig Leichhardt
Early Days in North Queensland
by Edward Palmer
Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Volume I
by Charles Sturt
The Earth as Modified by Human Action
by George P. (George Perkins) Marsh
Ophiolatreia An Account of the Rites and Mysteries Connected with the Origin, Rise, and Development of Serpent Worship in Various Parts of the World
by Edward Sellon
The Dawn of Canadian History : A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada
by Stephen Leacock
Cornwall
by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
L'Illustration, No. 3664, 17 Mai 1913
by Various Authors
Religious Folk-Songs of the Southern Negroes
by Howard Washington Odum
People of Africa
by Edith A. How
Official Report of the Exploration of the Queen Charlotte Islands for the Government of British Columbia
by Newton H. Chittenden
Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Volume 2
by Charles Sturt
L'Amérique sous le nom de pays de Fou-Sang
by chevalier de Charles Hippolyte Paravey
Maximilian, Prince of Wied's, Travels in the Interior of North America, 1832-1834, part 1
by Prinz von Maximilian Wied
The Land of Midian (Revisited) — Volume 2
by Sir Richard Francis Burton
In the South Seas Being an Account of Experiences and Observations in the Marquesas, Paumotus and Gilbert Islands in the Course of Two Cruises on the Yacht "Casco" (1888) and the Schooner "Equator" (1889)
by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day
by Alexander Francis Chamberlain
Early European History
by Hutton Webster
From Ritual to Romance
by Jessie L. (Jessie Laidlay) Weston
Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume 2 (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day
by Mrs. Lanaghan
Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation
by Lafcadio Hearn
The Treaties of Canada with the Indians of Manitoba and the North-West Territories Including the Negotiations on Which They Were Based, and Other Information Relating Thereto
by Alexander Morris
A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia
by Thomas Harriot
Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917
by Carl Lumholtz
The Babylonian Story of the Deluge as Told by Assyrian Tablets from Nineveh The Discovery of the Tablets at Nineveh by Layard, Rassam and Smith
by Sir E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis) Budge
Descriptive Catalogue of Photographs of North American Indians
by William Henry Jackson
History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan A Grammar of Their Language, and Personal and Family History of the Author
by Andrew J. Blackbird
Creation Myths of Primitive America In relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind
by Jeremiah Curtin
Himalayan Journals — Volume 2 Or, Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, etc.
by Joseph Dalton Hooker
The Aboriginal Population of the San Joaquin Valley, California
by Sherburne Friend Cook
An Introduction to the mortuary customs of the North American Indians
by H. C. (Harry Crécy) Yarrow
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1
by Ernst Haeckel
Shoshone-Bannock Subsistence and Society
by Robert F. (Robert Francis) Murphy, Yolanda Murphy