Archaeology & Anthropology

West African studies

Mary Henrietta Kingsley

The work is a scholarly ethnographic study of West Africa, framed as a corrective to the scant and often…

The heart of Africa, Vol. 2 (of 2)

Georg August Schweinfurth

A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms Being an account by the Chinese monk Fa-hsien of travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in search of the Buddhist books of discipline

Faxian

The work is a scholarly edition of the 5th‑century Chinese pilgrim’s own account of his journeys through…

Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples

Nadaillac, Jean-François-Albert du Pouget, marquis de

The book is a scholarly survey of prehistoric peoples, presented as a translated and updated French work by…

Methods & Aims in Archaeology

W. M. Flinders Petrie

This work is a systematic guide to the practice of archaeology, written by the eminent Egyptologist W. M.

Legends of Loudoun An account of the history and homes of a border county of Virginia's Northern Neck

Harrison Williams

The work is a regional history that blends a survey of Loudoun County’s early inhabitants, geography, and…

The Curious Lore of Precious Stones Being a description of their sentiments and folk lore, superstitions, symbolism, mysticism, use in medicine, protection, prevention, religion, and divination. Crystal gazing, birth-stones, lucky stones and talismans, astral, zodiacal, and planetary

George Frederick Kunz

The Curious Lore of Precious Stones is a scholarly survey of the many ways humanity has imbued gems with…

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 43, 1670-1700 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century

This volume continues the Dominican Order’s chronicle of its missionary activity in the Philippines, drawing…

The Earth and its inhabitants, Volume 1: Europe. Greece, Turkey in Europe, Rumania, Servia, Montenegro, Italy, Spain, and Portugal.

Elisée Reclus

Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers

Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

The work is a sprawling memoir by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, a 19th‑century explorer, geologist and…

Sweden

Victor Alfred Nilsson

Victor Alfred Nilsson’s work is a comprehensive survey of Sweden’s geography, natural resources, and early…

The Number Concept: Its Origin and Development

Levi L. Conant

The work is a scholarly survey of the origins and development of the human number concept, written by Levi L.

Seven years in South Africa, volume 1 (of 2): travels, researches, and hunting adventures, between the diamond fields and the Zambesi (1872-79)

Emil Holub

The natives of British Central Africa

Alice Werner

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 01 of 12)

James George Frazer

James George Frazer’s The Golden Bough is a scholarly treatise that began as a modest attempt to explain the…

Traditions of the Tinguian: a Study in Philippine Folk-Lore

Fay-Cooper Cole

Cole’s Traditions of the Tinguian is a scholarly ethnographic collection that presents the myths, ritual…

Among Cannibals: An Account of Four Years' Travels in Australia and of Camp Life With the Aborigines of Queensland

Carl Lumholtz

Carl Lumholtz’s work is a first‑hand ethnographic and natural‑history report of four years spent traversing…

Incwadi Yami; or, twenty years' personal experience in South Africa

J. W. Matthews

Incwadi Yami is a first‑person memoir that chronicles Dr J. W.

The History of Antiquity, Vol. 4 (of 6)

Max Duncker

The work is a scholarly survey of ancient civilizations, written by Max Duncker as the fourth volume in a…

Ancient history from the monuments: Greek cities & islands of Asia Minor

W. S. W. Vaux

The work is a scholarly survey of the ancient Greek cities and islands that once dotted the coast and…

The Bontoc Igorot

Albert Ernest Jenks

The work is an early‑twentieth‑century ethnographic monograph that records Albert Ernest Jenks’s five‑month…

Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia — Vol. 2 Performed between the years 1818 and 1822

Philip Parker King

The work is a detailed account of Lieutenant‑Commander Philip Parker King’s fourth surveying expedition along…

In Indian Mexico (1908)

Frederick Starr

Frederick Starr’s In Indian Mexico is a travel‑ethnography that sets out to chart a region of Mexico largely…

The Land of Midian (Revisited) — Volume 1

Sir Richard Francis Burton

Sir Richard Francis Burton’s “The Land of Midian (Revisited)” is a scholarly travelogue that builds on his…