Commentarii de Bello Gallico also Bellum Gallicum is Julius Caesar's firsthand account of the Gallic Wars, written as a third-person narrative. In it...
The Germania, written by the Roman historian Publius Cornelius Tacitus around 98 AD and originally entitled On the Origin and Situation of the Germans...
The Argonautica was an adventure for the poet, one of the major scholars of the Alexandrian period – it was a bold experiment in re-writing Homeric ep...
Embark on a thrilling expedition to the enigmatic landscapes of Formosa, where the allure of adventure intertwines with the rich tapestry of indigenou...
No matter how enlightened, chances are you've been raised around superstitious lore of one kind or another. Fanny Dickerson Bergen was one of the orig...
Schweinfurth trat 1868 im Auftrag der Humboldt-Stiftung in Berlin eine große Reise nach Afrika an. 1869 reiste er von Khartum aus nilaufwärts nach Fas...
Farthest North, Volume I, chronicles Fridtjof Nansen's Arctic expedition aboard the ship Fram from 1893 to 1896. This volume recounts the voyage itsel...
This volume of Pliny the Elder's *Natural History* presents a comprehensive overview of the ancient world. It encompasses a wide range of subjects, in...
Isabella Bird's 'Among the Tibetans' offers a vivid account of her journey through Tibet in the late 19th century, a time when such ventures were exce...
This book chronicles the hunting experiences of prominent members of the Boone and Crockett Club, recounting their expeditions in diverse global locat...
Published in 1908, "What the White Race May Learn from the Indian" by George Wharton James presents an anthropological examination of Native American...
Obra etnografica en la que el historiador romano Tácito describe el territorio, las gentes y las costumbres de los pueblos germanos a partir de difere...
Isabella L. Bird's "The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither" recounts her adventurous journey through the Malay Peninsula in the late 19th century....
Our Southern Highlanders is a memoir by Horace Kephart, a writer and librarian who lived in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina in the early 2...
George Catlin, renowned American artist, dedicated years of his life immersing himself in the lives of the Plains Indians during the 1830s. Through hi...
Frederick Starr's 'Strange Peoples' is a collection of ethnographic descriptions from various cultures around the world, compiled in the late 19th cen...
Argonauts of the Western Pacific is a seminal work of anthropology by Bronisław Malinowski, first published in 1922. The book is based on Malinowski's...
