Archaeology & Anthropology

Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 3 of 7

Edgar Thurston

The volume is a scholarly survey of South Indian castes and tribal groups, compiled by Edgar Thurston, a…

Siwa: the oasis of Jupiter Ammon

Sir Charles Dalrymple Belgrave

The work is a memoir‑like study by a British officer who spent two years in the remote Siwa Oasis during the…

The Negro

W. E. B. Du Bois

The work is a sweeping survey of African peoples and their global connections, written by the…

The Threshold Covenant; or, The Beginning of Religious Rites

H. Clay Trumbull

The Threshold Covenant is a scholarly treatise that investigates the earliest forms of religious ritual,…

Psyche: The Cult of Souls and Belief in Immortality among the Greeks

Erwin Rohde

Erwin Rohde’s Psyche is a scholarly investigation into how the ancient Greeks conceived the soul and its…

Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836. Volume I. Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830

Fitzroy, Robert; King, Philip Parker

The work is a formal naval report of the first surveying expedition undertaken by His Majesty’s ships…

Mexican archæology: an introduction to the archæology of the Mexican and Mayan civilizations of pre-Spanish America

Thomas Athol Joyce

Thomas Athol Joyce’s work is a compact survey of what was, in early‑twentieth‑century scholarship, the known…

Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa, Vol. 2 (of 5): being a journal of an expedition undertaken under the auspices of H.B.M.'s Government, in the years 1849-1855

Heinrich Barth

Heinrich Barth’s second volume of Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa is a meticulous field…

Itinerarium curiosum (centuria I): or, an account of the antiquities, and remarkable curiosities in nature or art, observed in travels through Great Britain

William Stukeley

This work is a self‑conscious travelogue of antiquarian observation, written by the English physician and…

Camps and Trails in China A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China

Andrews, Roy Chapman; Andrews, Yvette Borup

Camps and Trails in China is a detailed account of the 1916‑1917 Asiatic Zoological Expedition, undertaken by…

An Account of The Kingdom of Nepal And of the Territories Annexed to this Dominion by the House of Gorkha

Francis Hamilton

Francis Hamilton’s work is a nineteenth‑century geographical and ethnographic survey of Nepal and the…

The history of Sumatra: Containing an account of the government, laws, customs and manners of the native inhabitants

William Marsden

Primitive Athens as described by Thucydides

Jane Ellen Harrison

Jane Ellen Harrison’s work is a scholarly rebuttal that positions itself against the prevailing…

The History of Louisiana, Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina Containing a Description of the Countries That Lie on Both Sides of the River Missisippi

Le Page du Pratz

Le Page du Pratz’s work is a sprawling eighteenth‑century chronicle that blends personal memoir with natural…

In the Andamans and Nicobars: The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin"

C. Boden Kloss

The work is a detailed scientific travelogue that records a 1900‑1902 cruise aboard the schooner Terrapin to…

The Story of Switzerland

Hug, Lina; Stead, Richard

The work is a comprehensive historical survey of Switzerland, written by Lina Hug and Richard Stead and first…

Narrative of travels and discoveries in Northern and Central Africa, in the years 1822, 1823, and 1824

Denham, Dixon; Clapperton, Hugh; Oudney, Walter

The work is a first‑hand travel narrative chronicling the 1822‑24 British expedition into the interior of…

Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa, Vol. 1 (of 5): being a journal of an expedition undertaken under the auspices of H.B.M.'s Government, in the years 1849-1855

Heinrich Barth

This work is the first volume of a five‑part journal documenting Heinrich Barth’s expedition through North…

The Blood Covenant: A Primitive Rite and its Bearings on Scripture

H. Clay Trumbull

The work is a scholarly lecture series turned into a single volume, delivered by H.

Folk Lore Notes. Vol. I—Gujarat

A. M. T. Jackson

The volume is a post‑humous compilation of folklore material gathered by the late Arthur Mason Tippetts…

The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir

John M. Garvan

The mystery of Easter island: The Story of an Expedition

Katherine Routledge

The book is a first‑hand account of a British scientific expedition to Easter Island, written by Katherine…

The Solomon Islands and Their Natives

H. B. Guppy

The work is a scholarly report by Henry Brougham Guppy, a Royal Navy surgeon who served aboard HMS Lark…

Ethnological results of the Point Barrow expedition Ninth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1887-1888, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1892, pages 3-442

John Murdoch

The work is a nineteenth‑century ethnographic report compiled by John Murdoch, naturalist of the…