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Cover of The Viking Age. Volume 2 (of 2)
 The early history, manners, and customs of the ancestors of the English-speaking nations

The Viking Age. Volume 2 (of 2) The early history, manners, and customs of the ancestors of the English-speaking nations

Paul B. Du Chaillu

Myth, Ritual and Religion, Vol. 1 (of 2)

Myth, Ritual and Religion, Vol. 1 (of 2)

Andrew Lang

Andrew Lang’s Myth, Ritual and Religion is a scholarly survey that treats the origins of religious belief as…

Francis Drake and the California Indians, 1579

Francis Drake and the California Indians, 1579

Robert F. Heizer

Robert F. Heizer’s scholarly article treats the 1579 encounter between Sir Francis Drake and the native…

Cover of Seventeen trips through Somáliland A record of exploration & big game shooting, 1885 to 1893

Seventeen trips through Somáliland A record of exploration & big game shooting, 1885 to 1893

H. G. C. Swayne

Harold G. C. Swayne’s Seventeen Trips through Somáliland is a first‑person record of exploration, ethnology…

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Marionettes, masks and shadows

Mills, Winifred H. (Winifred Harrington); Dunn, Louise M.

Marionettes, Masks and Shadows is a sweeping cultural history that traces the development of puppetry from…

Modern Mythology

Modern Mythology

Andrew Lang

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History of anthropology

Haddon, Alfred C. (Alfred Cort); Quiggin, A. Hingston

Cover of The travels of Pedro de Cieza de Léon; Part 2

The travels of Pedro de Cieza de Léon; Part 2

Pedro de Cieza de León

Cover of Maori Religion and Mythology
 Illustrated by Translations of Traditions, Karakia, &c., to Which Are Added Notes on Maori Tenure of Land

Maori Religion and Mythology Illustrated by Translations of Traditions, Karakia, &c., to Which Are Added Notes on Maori Tenure of Land

Edward Shortland

Cover of Fetichism in West Africa: Forty Years' Observation of Native Customs and Superstitions

Fetichism in West Africa: Forty Years' Observation of Native Customs and Superstitions

Robert Hamill Nassau

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Early Man in the New World

Macgowan, Kenneth; Hester, Joseph A.

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The Chinese Dragon

L. Newton Hayes

Cover of Art in Shell of the Ancient Americans
 Second annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, pages 179-306

Art in Shell of the Ancient Americans Second annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, pages 179-306

William Henry Holmes

Russia, as Seen and Described by Famous Writers

Russia, as Seen and Described by Famous Writers

Cover of Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia, in Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria (1848)

Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia, in Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria (1848)

T. L. Mitchell

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Place Names in Kent

J. W. Horsley

Omnilingual

Omnilingual

H. Beam Piper

Cover of Pygmies & Papuans: The Stone Age To-day in Dutch New Guinea

Pygmies & Papuans: The Stone Age To-day in Dutch New Guinea

A. F. R. Wollaston

Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales

Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales

John Oxley

Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1 With Descriptions of the Recently Explored Region of Australia Felix, and of the Present Colony of New South Wales

Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1 With Descriptions of the Recently Explored Region of Australia Felix, and of the Present Colony of New South Wales

T. L. Mitchell

Cover of The old frontier: Te Awamutu, the story of the Waipa Valley
 The missionary, the soldier, the pioneer farmer, early colonization, the war in Waikato, life on the Maori border and later-day settlement

The old frontier: Te Awamutu, the story of the Waipa Valley The missionary, the soldier, the pioneer farmer, early colonization, the war in Waikato, life on the Maori border and later-day settlement

James Cowan

Cover of Amurath to Amurath

Amurath to Amurath

Gertrude Lowthian Bell

The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America

The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America

William Henry Giles Kingston

From Ritual to Romance

From Ritual to Romance

Jessie L. Weston