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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 Edwin Thompson Denig

by Oswald Reissert

by Pauline Wengeroff

by Various Authors

by Karl Otfried Müller

by J. F. (Johann Friedrich ) Scheltema

by Isaiah Bowman

by International Eugenics Congress (1st : 1912 : London)

by Friedrich Rathgen

by D.C. of Washington Thomas Foster

by Ashley Montagu, John Cunningham Lilly

by Henry A. Rayne

by Charles H. (Charles Hazelius) Sternberg

by William A. (William Alvin) Clemens

by H. M. (Hannah Marie) Wormington

by William B. Norman

by William Boulting

by Various Authors

by J. A. (Joseph Allen) Costello

by Various Authors

by Pauline Wengeroff

by Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski

by Einar Odhner

by William Beattie

by H. M. Dauncey

by Martin P. (Martin Persson) Nilsson

by H. J. L. (Hugh John Llewellyn) Beadnell

by Guglielmo Ferrero

by Henri Duveyrier
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by Franz Boas

by Zora Neale Hurston

by J. Romilly (John Romilly) Allen

by Henry M. (Henry Morton) Stanley

by Thomas Athol Joyce

by Margaret Mead

by Georges Baudoux

by James Mooney

by E. Alexander (Edward Alexander) Powell

by Fanny Parkes Parlby

by E. F. (Emile Félix) Gautier

by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce

by C. A. (Carl Axel) Gottlund

by British Museum. Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities

by Harry Johnston

by Carl Ritter

by Richard Owen

by Frederick Starr

by Charles W. (Charles William) Domville-Fife

by Franz Boas

by Joguth Chunder Gangooly

by Prosper Mérimée

by Max Prager

by Richard Andree

by Hans Besser

by Holt S. (Holt Samuel) Hallett

by Sir Charles Dalrymple Belgrave

by William Berryman Scott

by John Henry Parker

by M. W. (Melville William) Hilton-Simpson

by James Baikie

by Duff Macdonald

by Beatrix Manico Gull

by René Chudeau

by Charles Rabot

by Albert Grubauer

by L.-M.-A. (Louis Maurice Adolphe) Linant de Bellefonds

by Lieutenant James Cook

by Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh

by N. B. (Nicholas Belfield) Dennys

by Llewellynn Frederick William Jewitt

by Catherine Marten

by Jane Ellen Harrison

by Charles John Andersson

by Henri Duveyrier

by Robert Hartmann

by Karl Alfred von Zittel

by Richard Andree

by Napoléon Doumet-Adanson

by Marie Robinson Wright

by Baron Francis James Rennell Rodd Rennell of Rodd

by Auguste Chevalier, Mission Chari-Lac Tchad (1902-1904)