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Nineteen Centuries of Drink in England: A History

Richard Valpy French

Richard Valpy French’s work is a scholarly survey of English drinking habits, assembled from articles that…

The Argentine Republic: Its Development and Progress

Pierre Denis

The work is a scholarly survey of Argentina’s geography, agriculture and economic development as seen through…

History of Indian and Eastern Architecture

James Fergusson

James Fergusson’s work is a scholarly survey of Indian and broader Eastern architecture, framed as the third…

Tafilet: the narrative of a journey of exploration in the Atlas mountains and the oases of the north-west Sahara

Walter Harris

Walter Harris’s work is a travelogue that intertwines political observation with vivid description of…

The Mide'wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 143-300

Walter James Hoffman

The work is a scholarly ethnographic report compiled for the Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of…

Mandalay to Momien A narrative of the two expeditions to western China of 1868 and 1875 under Colonel Edward B. Sladen and Colonel Horace Browne

John Anderson

John Anderson’s Mandalay to Momien is a detailed travel narrative that records two British‑led expeditions…

My Experiences in Manipur and the Naga Hills

Sir James Johnstone

The work is a first‑person memoir of Sir James Johnstone, an Anglo‑Indian officer who spent the 1870s and…

The Treaty of Waitangi; or, how New Zealand became a British Colony

Thomas Lindsay Buick

Thomas Lindsay Buick’s work is a historical study that traces the political and diplomatic forces behind the…

French enterprise in Africa: the personal narrative of Lieut. Hourst of his exploration of the Niger

Hourst

The work is a first‑person account of Lieutenant Hour Hourst’s 1890s expedition along the Niger, presented as…

Monumental Java

J. F. Scheltema

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

The pirates own book: Authentic Narratives of the Most Celebrated Sea Robbers

Charles Ellms

The work presents itself as a compendium of authentic narratives about the world’s most infamous sea robbers,…

The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir

Sir James McCrone Douie

Sir James McCrone Douie’s The Panjab, North‑West Frontier Province, and Kashmir is a comprehensive…

Ran away from the Dutch: Or, Borneo from South to North

M. T. H. Perelaer

The work is a colonial‑era adventure narrative set in the Dutch East Indies, focusing on a group of European…

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…

The Cradle of Mankind; Life in Eastern Kurdistan

Wigram, W. A. (William Ainger); Wigram, Edgar Thomas Ainger

The Cradle of Mankind, Life in Eastern Kurdistan is a two‑volume travel‑history written jointly by the Rev.

The Cotton Kingdom, volume 1 (of 2): A traveller's observations on cotton and slavery in the American Slave States

Frederick Law Olmsted

Frederick Law Olmsted’s The Cotton Kingdom is a two‑volume travelogue and investigative report that blends…

Shinto (the Way of the Gods)

W. G. Aston

The work is a scholarly survey of Shinto, the ancient Japanese cult of kami, written by William George Aston.

Japanese Girls and Women Revised and Enlarged Edition

Alice Mabel Bacon

Alice M. Bacon’s Japanese Girls and Women is a revised and enlarged study of women’s roles in Meiji‑era…

A Book of Marionettes

Helen Haiman Joseph

The book is a scholarly survey of puppetry that begins with a lyrical meditation on the endless nature of the…

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…

Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest, with a Few Observations

J. Frank Dobie

The work is a reflective guide to the Southwest that doubles as a personal essay on the limits of regional…

Hertfordshire

Herbert W. Tompkins

The work is a county guide, written by Herbert W. Tompkins in 1903, that sets out to give a concise yet…

The slave trade: Slavery and color

Theodore D. Jervey

The work is a scholarly examination of the American slave trade and the broader “color question” that emerged…

Miracle Mongers and Their Methods A Complete Exposé of the Modus Operandi of Fire Eaters, Heat Resisters, Poison Eaters, Venomous Reptile Defiers, Sword Swallowers, Human Ostriches, Strong Men, Etc.

Harry Houdini

Harry Houdini’s Miracle Mongers and Their Methods is a nonfiction exposé that catalogues the tricks of…