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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 Jane Dieulafoy

by Edwin James, Stephen H. (Stephen Harriman) Long, Thomas Say

by Arthur Hayden

by Carl von Linné

by Helen McClees, N.Y.) Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York

by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce

by James Owen Dorsey

by W. S. W. (William Sandys Wright) Vaux

by Edward Tyson

by Frances Delavan Page Jermain

by M. Rigoberto (Manuel Rigoberto) Paredes

by Andrew Lang

by Georg Karl Cornelius Gerland

by John McKinlay

by Sigmund Freud

by Fay-Cooper Cole

by Herbert Mayo

by James Crabb

by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

by Robert W. (Robert Warren) Wilson

by Louis Guibert

by G. (Gaston) Maspero

by William MacGregor

by Heinrich Hubert Kerp

by Jesse Walter Fewkes

by Max Haushofer

by Frederick Schwatka

by Anonymous

by Jón Ólafsson

by Southwest Parks and Monuments Association

by Rocha Peixoto

by G. (Gianni) Beltrame

by Uno Harva

by Samuli Paulaharju

by George Frederick Kunz

by Charles Morris

by Joseph Deniker

by Walter Woodburn Hyde

by James George Frazer

by J. W. (John William) Robertson Scott

by Arthur H. Smith

by Georges Perrot, Charles Chipiez

by Tappan Adney, Howard Irving Chapelle

by Jessie L. (Jessie Laidlay) Weston

by Llewellynn Frederick William Jewitt

by H. Otley (Henry Otley) Beyer

by Fay-Cooper Cole
![The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 2, Civilized Nations The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 2](/api/img/6638bf21972dc5c80ef6399e/cover.jpg)
by Hubert Howe Bancroft

by Morris Jastrow

by Eugene S. (Eugene Solomon) Talbot

by Gerard Fowke

by Lewis Spence

by Enrico Ferri

by Prinz von Maximilian Wied

by George Borrow

by Henry Ridgely Evans

by Robert Hamill Nassau

by Donald A. (Donald Alexander) Mackenzie

by K. Langloh (Katie Langloh) Parker

by Thomas Henry Huxley

by Edward R. (Edward Richard) Shaw

by John M. (John Maxwell) Corbett

by Louis Becke

by B. R. (Bhimrao Ramji) Ambedkar

by Gisela M. A. (Gisela Marie Augusta) Richter

by Antoine Simon Maillard

by Frank R. Stockton

by A. T. (Albert Ten Eyck) Olmstead

by Various Authors

by James Cook

by C. (Charles) Bice, A. (Arthur) Brittain

by Albert H. Schroeder, Homer F. Hastings

by Ludwig Borchardt

by H. F. Scott (Henry Folliott Scott) Stokes

by Various Authors

by C. F. (Charles Francis) Keary

by Henry Fairfield Osborn, William Berryman Scott, Francis Speir

by August Ahlqvist

by Harold J. Brodrick

by Ansel F. (Ansel Franklin) Hall

by Ohio State University. Biological Club

by Herodotus

by H. B. (Henry Beauchamp) Walters, Samuel Birch

by William Crooke

by C. J. S. (Charles John Samuel) Thompson