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ReadTravels into North America, Volume 1 (of 3)
Pehr Kalm
This work is a first‑hand scientific travelogue of Professor Pehr Kalm’s three‑year expedition through the…
ReadIllustrations of the manners, customs, & condition of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (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
This work is a sprawling travelogue and ethnographic record by George Catlin, written as a series of letters…
Lancashire Folk-lore Illustrative of the Superstitious Beliefs and Practices, Local Customs and Usages of the People of the County Palatine
Harland, John; Wilkinson, Thomas Turner
Lancashire Folk‑lore is a scholarly compilation of the county’s superstitious beliefs, customs and usages,…
ReadCastes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 1 of 7
Edgar Thurston
The work is a scholarly ethnographic report commissioned by the British Indian administration in the early…
ReadThe Cherokee Nation of Indians. (1887 N 05 / 1883-1884 (pages 121-378))
Charles C. Royce
The work is a scholarly compilation by Charles C. Royce that documents every treaty and land cession…
ReadPicture-Writing of the American Indians Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1888-89, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1893, pages 3-822
Garrick Mallery
The volume is the Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, a government‑issued record submitted to the…
ReadThe Ancient Bronze Implements, Weapons, and Ornaments, of Great Britain and Ireland.
John Evans
John Evans’s work is a scholarly survey of bronze-age artefacts from Britain and Ireland, presented as a…
ReadThe Prehistoric World; Or, Vanished Races
Emory Adams Allen
The work is a sweeping survey of humanity’s earliest chapters, tracing vanished races from the glacial plains…
ReadTravels and discoveries in North and Central Africa: Including accounts of Tripoli, the Sahara, the remarkable kingdom of Bornu, and the countries around Lake Chad
Heinrich Barth
Heinrich Barth’s Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa is a nineteenth‑century geographical…
ReadA naturalist in Madagascar A record of observation, experiences, and impressions made during a period of over fifty years' intimate association with the natives and study of the animal & vegetable life of the island
James Sibree
James Sibree’s work is a sprawling natural‑history memoir that blends personal observation with the…
ReadA Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 New Edition with Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations
Samuel Hearne
Samuel Hearne’s Journey from Prince of Wales’s Fort in Hudson’s Bay to the Northern Ocean is a first‑hand…
ReadThe Place of Animals in Human Thought
Evelyn Lilian Hazeldine Carrington Martinengo-Cesaresco
The book is a scholarly survey that treats animals as subjects of religious, mythic, and philosophical…
ReadThe sacred dance: A study in comparative folklore
W. O. E. Oesterley
The work is a scholarly survey of the “sacred” dance as a religious rite, written by William O. E.
Wanderings among South Sea Savages and in Borneo and the Philippines
H. Wilfrid Walker
The work is a first‑person travel memoir by H. Wilfrid Walker, a naturalist‑collector who spent decades…
ReadThe Cultural History of Marlborough, Virginia An Archeological and Historical Investigation of the Port Town for Stafford County and the Plantation of John Mercer, Including Data Supplied by Frank M. Setzler and Oscar H. Darter
C. Malcolm Watkins
The work is a scholarly monograph issued as volume 253 of the United States National Museum’s Bulletin…
ReadBeast and Man in India A Popular Sketch of Indian Animals in their Relations with the People
John Lockwood Kipling
ReadDegeneracy: Its Causes, Signs and Results
Eugene S. Talbot
Degeneracy : Its Causes, Signs and Results is a scholarly treatise that assembles more than two decades of…
ReadCeylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1
Sir James Emerson Tennent
Sir James Emerson Tennent’s first volume is a sweeping natural‑history and cultural survey of Ceylon,…
The Fijians: A Study of the Decay of Custom
Basil Thomson
The work is a scholarly ethnographic study that concentrates on the erosion of traditional law among the…
ReadEarly Travels in Palestine Comprising the Narratives of Arculf, Willibald, Bernard, Sæwulf, Sigurd, Benjamin of Tudela, Sir John Maundeville, de la Brocquière, and Maundrell
This volume gathers a series of medieval pilgrimage accounts that chronicle the Holy Land from the…
ReadA history of land mammals in the western hemisphere
William Berryman Scott
This work is a scholarly survey of the fossil record of land mammals across North and South America, written…
ReadThe Lake Regions of Central Africa: A Picture of Exploration, Vol. 2
Sir Richard Francis Burton
The volume is a detailed geographical and ethnographic survey of the central African lake region, written by…
ReadThe dawn of astronomy A study of the temple-worship and mythology of the ancient Egyptians
Sir Norman Lockyer
The book is a scholarly investigation that blends astronomy, archaeology, and mythology to explore how…
ReadThe Viking Age. Volume 1 (of 2) The early history, manners, and customs of the ancestors of the English-speaking nations
Paul B. Du Chaillu
The work is a scholarly survey of Viking civilization, assembled by the explorer‑author Paul B.