Archaeology & Anthropology

History of Ancient Civilization

Charles Seignobos

Cock Lane and Common-Sense

Andrew Lang

Andrew Lang’s Cock Lane and Common‑Sense is a scholarly polemic from the late Victorian era that tackles the…

The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1 The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise; A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature

Alfred Russel Wallace

The work is a scientific travelogue that intertwines narrative with exhaustive natural‑history observation.

Wanderings of a pilgrim in search of the picturesque, Volume 2 (of 2): During four-and-twenty years in the east; With Revelations of Life in the Zenāna

Fanny Parkes Parlby

Fanny Parkes’s Wanderings of a Pilgrim in Search of the Picturesque is a sprawling travel diary that records…

Essays of an Americanist I. Ethnologic and Archæologic. II. Mythology and Folk Lore. III. Graphic Systems and Literature. IV. Linguistic.

Daniel G. Brinton

Daniel G. Brinton’s Essays of an Americanist is a scholarly compilation that tackles the origins, cultures,…

Monumental Java

J. F. Scheltema

Monumental Java is a personal travelogue and reflective catalogue of Javanese Hindu and Buddhist monuments,…

Travels in Ethiopia, above the second cataract of the Nile: exhibiting the state of that country, and its various inhabitants, under the dominion of Mohammed Ali; and illustrating the antiquities, arts, and history of the ancient kingdom of Meroe

G. A. Hoskins

This work is a nineteenth‑century travelogue that combines meticulous antiquarian observation with a broad…

The Seri Indians. (1898 N 17 / 1895-1896 (pages 1-344*))

W J McGee

The work is an ethnographic monograph by W. J. McGee, published in 1898, that records the customs, language…

Arabian Society in the Middle Ages: Studies From The Thousand and One Nights

Edward William Lane

This work is a scholarly compilation that extracts and reorganises the extensive commentary Edward William…

Mount Everest, the Reconnaissance, 1921

Howard-Bury, Charles; Mallory, George; Wollaston, A. F. R.

The book is a formal report of the 1921 reconnaissance of Mount Everest, compiled by the Royal Geographical…

A History of the Gipsies: with Specimens of the Gipsy Language

Walter Simson

Walter Simson’s A History of the Gipsies is a nineteenth‑century scholarly survey that sets out to document…

Lake Ngami: or, Explorations and discoveries during four years' wanderings in the wilds of southwestern Africa

Charles John Andersson

The work is a mid‑nineteenth‑century travelogue that records two extensive expeditions across the…

In Northern Mists: Arctic Exploration in Early Times (Volume 2 of 2)

Fridtjof Nansen

This volume, the second of Fridtjof Nansen’s two‑part study of early Arctic exploration, is a scholarly…

The Influence of India and Persia on the Poetry of Germany

Arthur F. J. Remy

Arthur F. J. Remy’s study is a scholarly survey of how Indian and Persian literary traditions shaped German…

The plurality of the human race

G. Pouchet

The book is a scholarly treatise on the contested question of whether humanity descends from a single origin…

Ácoma, the sky city: A study in Pueblo-Indian history and civilization

Mrs. William T. Sedgwick

The work is a scholarly compilation that seeks to present everything that has been written about the Pueblo…

The Sacred Tree; Or, the Tree in Religion and Myth

Mrs. J. H. Philpot

The Sacred Tree; or, the Tree in Religion and Myth is a scholarly‑type survey that sets out to collect,…

Illustrations of the manners, customs, & condition of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 (of 2) With letters and notes, written during eight years of travel and adventure among the wildest and most remarkable tribes now existing

George Catlin

George Catlin’s work is a sprawling illustrated travelogue that records his eight‑year odyssey among the…

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 06 of 12)

James George Frazer

The work is a scholarly survey of myth, ritual and belief, beginning with an extended meditation on the…

The Antiquity of Man

Sir Charles Lyell

The work is a nineteenth‑century scientific treatise that sets out, in a systematic fashion, the evidence…

In Northern Mists: Arctic Exploration in Early Times (Volume 1 of 2)

Fridtjof Nansen

Fridtjof Nansen’s In Northern Mists is a scholarly survey of Arctic discovery that begins with a personal…

The Babylonian Legends of the Creation

Sir E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis) Budge

The work is a scholarly compilation of Babylonian and Assyrian cosmogonic material, assembled by Sir E. A.

The North-West Amazons: Notes of some months spent among cannibal tribes

Thomas Whiffen

Thomas Whiffen’s work is a first‑person ethnographic record of a two‑year sojourn (1908‑1909) in the upper…

The Magic and Science of Jewels and Stones

Isidore Kozminsky

The book presents itself as a scholarly synthesis of modern mineral science and the ancient occult traditions…