Rogue adventurer and maverick archaeologist Childress takes the reader on unforgettable journeys in search of lost cities and ancient mysteries. Join him as he crosses deserts, mountains, and jungles in search of legendary cities, vast gold treasure, jungle pyramids, ancient seafarers, living dinosaurs, and solutions to the fantastic mysteries of the past. ...

Through fiction, reportage, memoir, diaries, and photography, this Granta looks at coping -- stoically, madly, badly -- with private and public disaster, from the agonies of adolescence to the bombing of Belgrade. Including James Buchan, Ian Jack, Edward Said, Jasmina Tesanovic, Edmund White, and Joy Williams. Plus new fiction from Zadie Smith and a photo essay by Larry Towell on the people who kept the manners and morals of the twentieth century ...

Written in 1890, a nicely illustrated popular survey of the peoples and tribes of Africa, their physical characters, manners, and customs. ...

This book presents a record of the interesting but steadily vanishing customs and ideas gathered during twenty-four years' residence amongst these shy inhabitants of the Lake Nyasa region, from witch doctors, diviners, hunters, fishers and every native sources. It is not an attempt to depict the daily life of the Konde people, it rather aims at indicating, as far as an outsider can, the leading ideas and practices which make up the background, ...

Vol. 1 of a 2 vol. set. A history of prostitution among all the people of the world, from the most remote antiquity to the present day. Translated from the French, with an introduction by Samuel Putnam. Prostitution, in ancient and modern history, exhibits three distinct forms, or degrees, which belong to three different epochs of the life of peoples: 1. Guest Prostitution; 2. Sacred Prostitution; 3. Legal or Political Prostitution. These degrees ...

<div><div>Since the first popular "Time Team" program was broadcast, its chief archaeologist, Mick Aston, has been taking aerial photographs of the English landscape. The best of these—nearly 250—are presented here to provide a unique insight into understanding the history of England. Mick’s subjects range from prehistoric Cheddar Gorge and Stonehenge to ...

To live long -- or even forever -- is one of humanity's most powerful dreams. In this unique survey of longevity's manifestations in religion, folk tra-ditions, science, literature and art, Lucian Boia demonstrates both how the human drive to live longer has persisted throughout the ages, and the ways in which science and the prevailing ideologies of the day have altered man's perception of what it entails. Far from being a contemporary ...

The new series Studies in Classical Archaeology aims to bring recent archaeological finds, fieldwork and research to the forefront among Greek scholars. This first volume includes 24 papers, plus an epilogue by John Boardman, taken from a colloquium held at Somerville College in Oxford in 2001. The papers are well illustrated throughout, including 86 pages of photographs, and covers a range of different approaches, finds and sites from c. 900 ...

Discovering Sumerians of Indus Valley as Phoenicians, Barats, Goths and Famous Vedic Aryans. Contents: Sumerian origin of the Indoaryans and their civilization; sites of Indosumerian seals and associated buildings in Indus Valley with their ancient history; seals, their stamp shape and animal symbols; Sumerian script on seals; hieroglyph seals; personal names and titles of owners; official signet Indosumerian seals; death amulet; personal, tribal ...

This work entails sketches of various rites and ceremonies in the following countries or regions: Abyssinia; ancient nations of Central America; Celebes; Ceylon; Congo; Fiji; Greece; Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands; Hottentots; Java; Malaya; Marianne Islands (Ladrones); Marquesas Islands; Netherlands; North American Indians; northern regions and Greenland; Persia; Peru; Philippine Islands; Poland; Polynesia; Tonga; Russia and Tartary; Society ...