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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 D. E. D. (David Emanuel Daniel) Europaeus

by Henry Lee

by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton

by Anton W. (Anton Willem) Nieuwenhuis

by John L. (John Lambert) Cotter, J. Paul Hudson

by Henry W. (Henry Wetherbee) Henshaw

by Fritz Secker

by Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani

by R. N. (Richard Nicklin) Hall

by Andrew Lang

by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

by Jane Dieulafoy

by John Wesley Powell

by Joaquim Possidónio Narciso da Silva

by John Gabriel Stedman

by Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn

by George Chetwynd Griffith

by Angelo De Gubernatis

by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

by Le Page du Pratz

by Fridtjof Nansen

by Sir Richard Francis Burton

by François-Victor Equilbecq

by S. A. (Samuel Alfred) Barrett

by Southwest Parks and Monuments Association, United States. National Park Service

by Johannes Häyhä

by Kai Donner

by Grafton Elliot Smith

by Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland

by Robert Finch, United States. National Park Service. Division of Publications

by Katherine Routledge

by Hutton Webster

by Elias Johnson

by Alexander von Humboldt

by Washington Matthews

by Edwin Herbert Gomes

by L. H. (Lionel Hugh) Branson

by James George Frazer

by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

by G. (Gaston) Maspero

by T. L. (Thomas Livingstone) Mitchell

by Paul Schellhas

by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James

by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton

by James Roxburgh McClymont

by John Keast Lord

by Francisco de Viedma

by Sydney Anderson, J. Knox Jones

by Anonymous

by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

by Alberto Fortis

by Southwest Parks and Monuments Association

by Edward Sylvester Morse

by James George Frazer

by Hiram Bingham

by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton

by Thomas Henry Huxley

by Léon Alexandre Heuzey

by Alfred Kirchhoff

by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

by George Bird Grinnell

by Northcote Whitridge Thomas

by C. Malcolm Watkins

by R. Talbot (Robert Talbot) Kelly
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by George Weir

by L. W. (Leonard William) King, H. R. (Harry Reginald) Hall

by L. W. (Levi W.) Yaggy, T. L. (Thomas Louis) Haines

by T. F. (Thomas Firminger) Thiselton-Dyer

by George Bird Grinnell

by Jean-François Champollion

by Geological Survey (U.S.)

by J. W. (Johan Wiktor) Calamnius

by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

by Sven Anders Hedin

by Arthur F. J. Remy

by Ludwig Leichhardt

by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce

by United States. National Park Service

by Frank Hamilton Cushing

by active 1691-1697 Yonghe Yu

by Tommaso Piroli

by Jesse Walter Fewkes

by Willem Cornelis van Zijll

by United States. National Park Service

by Alexander von Humboldt

by F.R.G.S. John Foreman

by Ignatius Donnelly

by John Aubrey

by J. de (Jacques) Morgan

by comte de Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon