Anthropology Books

The Lives of Celebrated Travellers, Vol. 2 (of 3)

James Augustus St. John

The Lives of Celebrated Travellers, Vol. 2 (of 3)Joseph Pitton de TournefortDr. Thomas ShawFrederic HasselquistLady Wortley MontagueRichard PocockeJohn BellJohn LedyardGeorge ForsterJames BruceJonas H..

Mirabilia descripta - The wonders of the East

Friar Jordanus

The little work here presented was printed in the original Latin at Paris in 1839, under the editorship of M. Coquebert-Montbret, in the Recueil de Voyages et de Mémoires, publié par la Société de Géo..

The Open Polar Sea

I. I. Hayes

The reader will observe that I have not attempted, in any sense, to write a work of Science. True, the purpose of the voyage was purely a scientific one,—its chief object and aim being to explore the ..

The Atom and the Ocean

E. W. Seabrook Hull

Nuclear energy is playing a vital role in the life of every man, woman, and child in the United States today. Historians of the future will record that man almost simultaneously unlocked the secret of..

Among Cannibals

Carl Lumholtz

In the year 1880 I undertook an expedition to Australia, partly at the expense of the University of Christiania, with the object of making collections for the zoological and zootomical museums of the ..

Modern dancing and dancers

J. E. Crawford Flitch

It is not unlikely that when the art historian of the future comes to treat of the artistic activity of the first decade of the twentieth century, he will remark as one of its most notable accomplishm..

Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes

W. D. Westervelt

Some such story as this outlines the tremendous events, explosions, whirlwinds, avalanches, lava flows, earthquakes, and fiery blasts which composed the narrative of the domain of Pele before man appe..

Legends of Old Honolulu

W. D. Westervelt

The legends of a people are of interest to the scholar, the thinker, and the poet. The legends tell us of the struggles, the triumphs, and the wanderings of the people, of their thoughts, their aspira..