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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 Marcus R. P. Dorman

by Ernst Buschor

by Cesare Lombroso

by William Lewis Herndon, Lardner Gibbon

by Sherburne Friend Cook

by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

by W. H. R. (William Halse Rivers) Rivers

by John Garstang

by traveler James Hamilton

by Janet B. Montgomery McGovern

by James Thacher

by H. R. (Hugh Robert) Coulthard

by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce

by Charles Rau

by J. O. (James Oliver) Bevan

by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce

by Ralph Van Deman Magoffin

by Various Authors

by Helen Fitzgerald Sanders

by Oliver W. (Oliver Woodson) Nixon

by Robert H. Milligan

by Charles Dack

by Various Authors

by William A. (William Alonzo) Allen

by Don Watson

by Richard C. Fox

by John Lederer

by I. (Isaac) Groneman

by E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond) Hall, Walter Woelber Dalquest

by Cyrus Thomas

by John G. Neihardt

by Benjamin Moore Norman

by H. T. (Henry Thomas Johnson) Irwin, Cynthia Irwin-Williams

by Erland Nordenskiöld

by Various Authors

by Ohio State University. Biological Club

by Various Authors

by Clement Reid

by Inter-tribal Council of Louisiana

by John Treat Irving

by T. G. Wakeling

by George Thornton Emmons

by Alphonse de Lamartine

by Clark Wissler

by Frederick Starr

by John Skinner

by António Francisco Ferreira da Silva Porto

by R. A. Scott (Robert Andrew Scott) Macfie

by Elias Lönnrot

by Otto Donner

by G. Smits

by Pier Ambrogio Curti

by Manfredo Cagni

by Flaminio Servi

by Frederic H. Sawyer

by Alphonse de Candolle

by Alice Bertha Gomme
![The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 5, Primitive History The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 5](/api/img/6638c02d972dc5c80ef6611e/cover.jpg)
by Hubert Howe Bancroft

by Edward Westermarck

by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce

by James Cook

by T. Rice (Thomas Rice) Holmes

by H. B. (Henry Brougham) Guppy

by Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston

by A. M. T. (Arthur Mason Tippetts) Jackson

by H. Beam Piper

by Alexander Francis Chamberlain

by Horace Kephart

by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

by Gustav von Bezold

by Paul Lachlan MacKendrick

by H. Ling (Henry Ling) Roth

by C. Boden (Cecil Boden) Kloss

by Arthur John Booth

by St. John D. (St. John Drelincourt) Seymour

by John Timbs

by W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders) Petrie

by Marc Monnier

by A. de (Armand de) Quatrefages

by Standish O'Grady

by Alfred C. (Alfred Cort) Haddon, A. Hingston (Alison Hingston) Quiggin

by Sherburne Friend Cook

by John H. (John Hobbis) Harris

by Robert Coltman

by Sherburne Friend Cook

by Johann Gottfried Haensel

by José Gestoso y Pérez

by Nathaniel Parker Willis

by Edwin C. (Edwin Carter) Galbreath

by Martin Johnson

by Augustus Le Plongeon