This vivid travel narrative opens with a sea voyage from New York to Nicaragua and quickly becomes a searching portrait of a country defined by volcanoes, lakes, ruins, and political uncertainty. From San Juan de Nicaragua and the San Juan River to Lake Nicaragua, Granada, Masaya, Managua, Leon, and Chinandega, the author records tropical scenery, bustling markets, military escorts, local households, and the daily life of priests, soldiers, mule trains, and water carriers. Beneath the adve...

"Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley" is a seminal work that explores the rich archaeological heritage of the Mississippi River region. Authored by E. H. Davis and E. G. Squier, the book meticulously documents the various earthworks and mounds constructed by ancient Native American cultures. Through detailed descriptions and illustrations, the authors provide insights into the social and ceremonial practices of these civilizations, highlighting their architectural ingenuity and cul...

In "Waikna: or, Adventures on the Mosquito Shore," E. G. Squier immerses readers in the alluring yet treacherous landscape of Central America during the mid-19th century. This narrative style intertwines vivid descriptions and rich characterizations, echoing the Romantic literary movements of its time, while providing an anthropological lens through which the intricacies of indigenous cultures and colonial encounters are explored. Squier's depiction of the Mosquito Coast unveils a delicate...

The fact of the existence, within the valley of the Mississippi river and its tributaries, of many ancient monuments of human labor and skill, seems to have escaped the notice of the adventurers who first made known to the world the extent and fertility of that vast region. Except some incidental allusions by La Vega, and the Portuguese chronicler of De Soto's unfortunate expedition, to structures bearing some analogy to those of the West, (and which seem to have been occupied, if they wer...

Ancient Monuments of the United States is a brief survey of the remains of Native American Fortifications, Places of Worship, Sepulchral Mounds and other remains of the civilization that occupied the Eastern Seaboard and Mississippi Valley prior to European Colonization. Written in the mid 19th century by Ephraim George Squier, a leading archeologist of the time, this brief survey covers some artifacts that are no longer extant.

E G Squier, noted 19th century archeologist and newspaper editor, was appointed United States Commissioner to Peru in 1863. In that capacity he traveled extensively in the mountains of Bolivia and Peru, making the arduous journey across the Andes on the back of a mule. In his travels he took extensive notes and photographs of the Inca monuments then extant. This collection is a series that appeared in 1868, which describes his trip and some of the monuments that the Incas left behind. Tra...

A short Illustrated Narrative of Dr. Livingstone's expedition and his discoveries during the trip.

The story of the Lost Atlantis is recorded in the Timæus and, with many fanciful amplifications, in the Critias of Plato. According to the dialogues, as reproduced there, Critias repeats to Socrates a story told him by his grandfather, then an old man of ninety, when he himself was not more than ten years of age. According to this narrative, Solon visited the city of Sais, at the head of the Egyptian delta, and there learned from the priests of the ancient empire of Atlantis, and of its ov...

Art in Shell of the Ancient AmericansThe student will find scattered throughout a wide range of archæologic literature frequent but casual mention of works of art in shell. Individual uses of shell have been dwelt upon at considerable length by a few authors, but up to this time no one has undertaken the task of bringing together in one view the works of primitive man in this material.Works of ancient peoples in stone, clay, and bronze, in all countries, ha...

DISCOVERY OF THE SOURCES OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVERSUMMARY NARRATIVE OF AN EXPLORATORY EXPEDITION TO THE SOURCES OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER, IN 1820:RESUMED AND COMPLETED, BY THE DISCOVERY OF ITS ORIGIN IN ITASCA LAKE, IN 1832.By Authority of the United States WITH APPENDIXES, COMPRISING THE ORIGINAL REPORT ON THE COPPER MINES OF LAKE SUPERIOR, AND OBSERVATIONS ON THE GEOLOGY OF THE LAKE BASINS, AND THE SUMMIT OF THE MISSISSIPPI;TOGETHER WITH ALL THE OFFICIAL REPORT...

It is the design of this work to narrate, in a clear, simple, andintelligible manner, the leading events connected with the history ofour country, from the earliest periods, down, as nearly as practicable,to the present time. The several volumes will be illustrated with allnecessary maps and with numerous engravings, and the work isintended to comprise, in a distinct and connected narrative, all that itis essential for the general reader to underst...

William Bartram's Bartram's Travels is a landmark of American travel writing and natural history, recording his 1773–1777 journeys through the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, and the Cherokee, Creek, and Choctaw territories. Combining botanical precision with rapturous prose, the book catalogues plants, animals, landscapes, and Indigenous societies while transforming observation into literary art. Its style stands at a crossroads between Enlightenment science and early Romantic sensibility, m...