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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 Carlos Navarro y Lamarca

by David MacRitchie

by Alexandre Alberto da Rocha de Serpa Pinto

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton

by Arthur Young

by Sir Samuel White Baker

by H. C. (Harry Crécy) Yarrow

by Francis J. (Francis Joseph) Grund

by Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick

by James Constantine Pilling

by Yrjö Sakari Yrjö-Koskinen

by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton

by Richard Owen

by Delphine Menant

by Kickapoo Club

by Grégoire-Gaspard-Félix Coffinières de Nordeck

by Désiré Charnay

by Southwest Parks and Monuments Association

by R. (Rudolf) Bommeli

by Samuli Paulaharju

by Johann Christoph Pohl, Johann Gottlob Hertel

by Fridtjof Nansen

by Thomas Henry Huxley

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

by Hans Fehlinger

by Alfred Russel Wallace

by L. W. (Leonard William) King

by Arthur Conan Doyle

by Alice Bertha Gomme

by William Lewis Herndon, Lardner Gibbon

by Thomas Wallace Knox

by A. F. R. (Alexander Frederick Richmond) Wollaston

by Elmore Barce

by Victor Mindeleff, Cosmos Mindeleff

by Joseph Schafer

by Sir Richard Francis Burton

by Thorstein Veblen

by Sir John William Dawson

by contessa Evelyn Lilian Hazeldine Carrington Martinengo-Cesaresco

by Lewis Richard Farnell

by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

by Ernst Haeckel

by Sven Anders Hedin

by Hippolyt Julius Haas

by E. (Edward) Anwyl

by William Stukeley

by Thomas Henry Huxley, Charles Darwin

by Ulrich Schmidel

by James Owen Dorsey, Albert S. (Albert Samuel) Gatschet, Stephen Return Riggs

by J. Knox Jones

by Jeremiah Curtin

by Engelbert Wittich

by Sydney Anderson

by Alexander von Humboldt

by Friedrich Dannemann

by Jesse Walter Fewkes

by Various Authors

by Steven D. Smith, George J. Castille

by Hendrik Jacobus Heijnes

by Jane Dieulafoy

by Francis Allan

by Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier

by Ellen Churchill Semple

by James George Frazer

by James George Frazer

by J. G. (John George) Wood

by James George Frazer

by Charles Howard-Bury, George Mallory, A. F. R. (Alexander Frederick Richmond) Wollaston

by J. A. (John Arnott) MacCulloch

by Edgar Thurston

by Thomas Wright

by Heinrich Schliemann

by M. A. R. (Mildred Anna Rosalie) Tuker, Hope Malleson

by Emmeline M. (Emmeline Mary) Plunket

by Albert S. (Albert Samuel) Gatschet

by Phebe Earle Gibbons

by Sir Richard Francis Burton

by Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers

by Percy E. (Percy Edward) Newberry

by Marie Carmichael Stopes

by Charles Godfrey Leland

by L. Newton Hayes

by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce

by James Owen Dorsey

by Robert H. Milligan

by Walter Hough

by Harvey C. Markman

by Thomas Henry Huxley

by Edwin Sidney Hartland
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by Anonymous

by active 1803-1825 William Bennet Stevenson

by Andrew J. Blackbird

by L. Roy Terwilliger