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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 James H. (James Henry) Coyne

by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton

by Tommaso Piroli

by A. de Mathuisieulx

by Various Authors

by Thomas McKenny Hughes

by Gottlieb F. Oehler, David Z. Smith

by Emory Adams Allen

by Frederick Courteney Selous

by Edward William Lane

by F.R.A.I. Elizabeth Andrews

by Major John Butler

by Robert F. (Robert Francis) Murphy, Yolanda Murphy

by Stanley Arthur Cook

by Anna C. (Anna Cummings) Johnson

by Stanley William Lohman

by Richard Brooke

by F. J. P. Sachse

by Martin Hunter

by Robert W. Neuman, Nancy W. Hawkins

by Ralph Linton

by Various Authors

by Henry E. (Henry Edwin) Baker

by Rufin Piotrowski

by Paul Broca

by J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean

by H. G. (Harry Govier) Seeley

by Alfred Wintle Johnston
by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton

by John B. (John Beach) Driggs

by Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith) Speck

by H. R. (Harry Reginald) Hall

by H. J. van Ginkel

by Friedrich Christoph Jonathan Fischer

by G. D. Pope

by Samuel Wendell Williston

by Various Authors

by Archibald Smith

by Gardiner G. (Gardiner Greene) Hubbard

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by Pier Ambrogio Curti

by Mrs. John King Van Rensselaer

by Charles Gould

by G. Woolliscroft (George Woolliscroft) Rhead

by Sir Thomas Hungerford Holdich

by Anne Cary Maudslay, Alfred Percival Maudslay

by Constance Louisa Adams

by Robert Ferguson

by Ernest Babelon

by R. P. (Pierre Jean Baptiste) Duchaussois

by Martin A. Baumhoff

by W. G. (William Gregory) Wood-Martin

by George Gardner

by Jennie Hall

by Leo Crane

by Charles Owen

by George Nelson

by Nicolò Papadopoli Aldobrandini

by Paul O. (Paul Orman) McGrew, Michael Casilliano

by Henry W. Setzer

by R. V. C. (Ronald Victor Courtenay) Bodley

by Emma Elizabeth Thoyts

by George A. (George Amos) Dorsey

by W. L. H. (Wynfrid Laurence Henry) Duckworth

by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton

by R. H. (Robert Hamilton) Mathews

by Various Authors

by G. (Georges) Pouchet

by Daniel Bruun

by Tommaso Piroli

by Herbert Pitts

by Anna Maria Elizabeth Cust

by James Schoenwetter

by A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward

by Katharine A. Hodge

by Carl Bovallius

by Gabriel Peignot

by Signor Saltarino

by Anonymous

by George Smith

by Francis Allan

by Samuli Paulaharju

by George Laurence Gomme

by Edward Fenton Elwin

by John Ackerson Erredge

by Edward Palmer

by James Fergusson

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

by Ethel Beatrice Abrahams