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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 Moritz Spiess

by Washington Matthews

by Heinrich Breitenstein

by C. E. P. (Charles Ernest Pelham) Brooks

by Don Watson

by L. Mark Raab, Randall W. Moir

by John Gregory Bourke

by Tommaso Piroli

by Dama Margaret Smith

by Gustave Le Bon

by John Moselage

by Eero Salmelainen

by Various Authors

by Felix Speiser

by the Elder Pliny

by Henri Frankfort

by Mary Henrietta Kingsley

by Henri Mouhot

by Alfred C. (Alfred Cort) Haddon

by Lewis Spence

by John Ashton

by Thomas Hodgkin

by British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities

by Andrew Lang

by George Wharton James

by William Dean Howells

by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

by E. (Emily) Gerard

by James George Frazer

by Thomas Henry Huxley

by Mrs. Lanaghan

by Isaac Myer
![A Pilgrimage to Nejd, the Cradle of the Arab Race. Vol. 2 [of 2] A Visit to the Court of the Arab Emir, and "our Persian Campaign."](/api/img/6638bee1972dc5c80ef63032/cover.jpg)
by Lady Anne Blunt

by F. W. (Frederick William) Fairholt

by Leonard V. (Leonard Victor) Dalton

by Hans Egede

by Percival Lowell

by Andrew Lang

by Anonymous

by Nevin O. (Nevin Otto) Winter

by Lincolnshire rector of Ruckland George Hall

by Sir Norman Lockyer

by David L. Hieb

by Kittridge A. Wing

by Alfred C. (Alfred Cort) Haddon

by Dixon Denham, Hugh Clapperton, Walter Oudney

by Marshall H. (Marshall Howard) Saville

by Alice M. Hayes

by Friedrich Günther

by Archibald Geikie

by Albert Frederick Calvert

by Irving C. (Irving Collins) Rosse

by Friedrich S. (Friedrich Salomo) Krauss

by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

by Storrs L. Olson, David C. Parris

by John Berry Haycraft

by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams

by Matilde Serao

by Max Uhle

by Jessie Mothersole

by T. A. (Theodore Arthur) Willard

by George Benson

by Andrew McFarland Davis

by Joseph Montano

by Charles P. (Charles Pickering) Bowditch

by E. (Emile) Amélineau

by Fred K. Fleagle

by Various Authors

by Julius Krohn

by Édouard Charton

by Wilfrid D. (Wilfrid Dyson) Hambly

by Samuel George Morton

by Philipp J. J. (Philipp Johann Josef) Valentini

by Gerhard Rohlfs

by Domenico Merlini

by Frank Jewett Mather

by Jesse Walter Fewkes

by Friedrich Engels

by Hans Sohrmann

by Edwin C. (Edwin Carter) Galbreath

by Samuli Paulaharju

by Gustaf Lindström

by Richard Mayde

by Edv. A. (Edvard August) Vainio

by Various Authors