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The Golden Bough - Volume 10 by James George Frazer
Category: Classics | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Classics Ser.
The Golden Bough By James George Frazer THE PRIMARY aim of this book is to explain the remarkable rule which regulated the succession to the priesthood of Diana at Aricia. When I first set myself to solve the problem more than thirty years ago, I thought that the solution could be propounded very briefl ...Show more
The Golden Bough - Volume 11 by James George Frazer
Category: Classics | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Classics Ser.
The Golden Bough By James George Frazer THE PRIMARY aim of this book is to explain the remarkable rule which regulated the succession to the priesthood of Diana at Aricia. When I first set myself to solve the problem more than thirty years ago, I thought that the solution could be propounded very briefl ...Show more
The Golden Bough - Volume 12 by James George Frazer
Category: Classics | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Classics Ser.
The Golden Bough By James George Frazer THE PRIMARY aim of this book is to explain the remarkable rule which regulated the succession to the priesthood of Diana at Aricia. When I first set myself to solve the problem more than thirty years ago, I thought that the solution could be propounded very briefl ...Show more
The Golden Bough - Volume 8 by James George Frazer
Category: Classics | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Classics Ser.
The Golden Bough By James George Frazer THE PRIMARY aim of this book is to explain the remarkable rule which regulated the succession to the priesthood of Diana at Aricia. When I first set myself to solve the problem more than thirty years ago, I thought that the solution could be propounded very briefl ...Show more
The Golden Bough - Volume 9 by James George Frazer
Category: Classics | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Classics Ser.
The Golden Bough By James George Frazer THE PRIMARY aim of this book is to explain the remarkable rule which regulated the succession to the priesthood of Diana at Aricia. When I first set myself to solve the problem more than thirty years ago, I thought that the solution could be propounded very briefl ...Show more
The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783 by Alfred Thayer Mahan
Category: Reference | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Naval and Military History Ser.
Captain Mahan has written distinctively the best and most important, and also by far the most interesting, book on naval history which has been produced on either side of the water for many a long year. --Atlantic Monthly, October 1890First published over a century ago, this classic text on the history ...Show more
The Malay Archipelago 2 Volume Set - The Land of the Orang-Utan, and the Bird of Paradise. A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature by Alfred Russel Wallace
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Zoology Ser.
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823 1913) was a British naturalist who is best remembered as the co-discoverer, with Darwin, of natural selection. His extensive fieldwork and advocacy of the theory of evolution led to him being considered one of the nineteenth century's foremost evolutionary theorists. These vo ...Show more
The Revised Latin Primer by Benjamin Hall Kennedy
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Classics Ser.
Described by Mary Beard in The Independent as 'the Rolls Royce of textbooks', Kennedy's classic 1888 guide has remained the pre-eminent Latin reference grammar in schools and universities for well over a century. This is a reissue of the first edition, which appeared the year before the author's death. ...Show more
The Selected Works of Virginia Woolf (HB) by Virginia Woolf
Category: Fiction | Series: Library Collection Ser.
The delicate artistry and lyrical prose of Woolf's novels have established her as a writer of sensitivity and profound talent. Virginia Woolf displays genuine humanity and concern for the experiences that enrich and stultify existence. In Mrs Dalloway, Society hostess, Clarissa Dalloway is giving a par ...Show more
The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen: Discovered by the Late Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter by Howard Carter
Category: MILITARY/HISTORY | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Egyptology Ser.
Howard Carter (1874-1939) was an English archaeologist and Egyptologist, now renowned for discovering the tomb of the pharaoh Tutankhamun. Published between 1923 and 1933, this three-volume study contains Carter's detailed account of the sensational discovery, excavation and clearance of Tutankhamun's t ...Show more
The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen: Discovered by the Late Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter by Howard Carter, A. C. Mace
Category: MILITARY/HISTORY | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Egyptology Ser.
Howard Carter (1874-1939) was an English archaeologist and Egyptologist, now renowned for discovering the tomb of the pharaoh Tutankhamun. Published between 1923 and 1933, this three-volume study contains Carter's detailed account of the sensational discovery, excavation and clearance of Tutankhamun's t ...Show more
Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia - With Descriptions of the Recently Explored Region of Australia Felix and of the Present Colony of New South Wales by T. L. Mitchell
Category: Australiana | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - History of Oceania Ser.
Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell (1792-1855) was an acclaimed surveyor and explorer of Australia. After attending the University of Edinburgh Mitchell joined the British Army in 1811. He took part in major battles of the Peninsular War and difficult military surveys in the Pyrenees. In 1827 he was appoin ...Show more