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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 Hugh E. (Hugh Exton) Seebohm

by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton

by Harold Bayley

by William Marsden

by Paul Marty

by Oscar Chrisman

by Sir Richard Francis Burton

by Edouard Fournier

by Kenneth James Beatty

by Huron H. (Huron Herbert) Smith

by Walter Hough

by William Heaford Daubney
by P. R. T. (Philip Richard Thornhagh) Gurdon

by Harold Peake

by W J McGee

by C. King Eley

by James W. Shepp, Daniel B. Shepp

by John Bruno Romero

by Isaac Taylor Headland

by T. Eric (Thomas Eric) Peet

by William Allan Reed

by West Texas State University. Geological Society

by Alice C. (Alice Cunningham) Fletcher

by Alice Werner

by Various Authors

by Otto von Kotzebue

by James Owen Dorsey

by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley

by Johannes Scheffer

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

by Jesse Walter Fewkes

by Samuel George Morton

by J. Paul Hudson

by Peter A. (Peter Augustus) Porter

by A. B. (Alfred Burdon) Ellis

by Doane Robinson

by Frank Cuttriss

by Richard Caton

by A. C. Whitford

by Franz Doflein

by Various Authors

by Isaac de La Peyrère

by vicomte de Alphonse Jean René Fleuriot de Langle

by Robert J. Russell

by Jean-François de La Harpe

by Wilhelm Bölsche

by Clarence B. (Clarence Bloomfield) Moore

by Emile Stouff

by Johannes Häyhä

by Jakob Esaiaksenpoika Fellman

by Samuli Paulaharju

by William Gates

by Various Authors

by Caroline Taylor Stewart

by R. L. (Robert Lockhart) Hobson

by John Shakespear

by Robert Ferguson

by John William Edward Conybeare

by Bronislaw Malinowski

by John Philip Newman

by Edward Stack

by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

by Edwin Sidney Hartland

by Lucy Thompson

by James Edward Quibell

by Sherburne Friend Cook

by Delphine Menant

by Llewellynn Frederick William Jewitt, Barclay V. (Barclay Vincent) Head

by Frederic Shoberl

by I. I. (Isaac Israel) Hayes

by W. J. Harding King

by W. G. (William Gershom) Collingwood

by R.N. Richard Sadleir

by W. O. E. (William Oscar Emil) Oesterley

by Charles Douglas, A. I. (Anne Isabel) Douglas

by K. H. E. de (Karel Hendrik Eduard) Jong

by Maxwell Sommerville

by Jonathan Prince Cilley

by C. R. (Claude Russell) Moss

by Elizabeth W. Allston (Elizabeth Waties Allston) Pringle

by John M. Douglass

by G. (Gaston) Maspero

by Joachim John Monteiro

by Helen Haskell

by Albert Scobel

by Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith) Speck

by Carl E. (Carl Eugen) Guthe