Best books on history and culture.

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Journey to the West: A Long March from Eastern Dream to Western Reality
Journey to the West: A Long March from Eastern Dream to Western Reality
by: Biao Wang
4.27 avg rating — 142 ratings
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The Daughter of Kurdland: A Life Dedicated to Humankind
The Daughter of Kurdland: A Life Dedicated to Humankind 4.20 avg rating — 409 ratings
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Females of Valor (The Viking's Kurdish Love, #2)
Females of Valor (The Viking's Kurdish Love, #2) 4.74 avg rating — 106 ratings
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Zoroastrians' Fight for Survival (The Viking's Kurdish Love, #1)
Zoroastrians' Fight for Survival (The Viking's Kurdish Love, #1) 4.70 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Roots of To-Be Templars (The Viking's Kurdish Love #3)
Roots of To-Be Templars (The Viking's Kurdish Love #3) 4.71 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Females of Valor (The Viking's Kurdish Love, #2)
Females of Valor (The Viking's Kurdish Love, #2) 4.74 avg rating — 106 ratings
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Zoroastrians' Fight for Survival (The Viking's Kurdish Love, #1)
Zoroastrians' Fight for Survival (The Viking's Kurdish Love, #1) 4.70 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands 4.20 avg rating — 2,206 ratings
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A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community
A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community 4.15 avg rating — 422 ratings
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From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present 4.13 avg rating — 4,605 ratings
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How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe 3.81 avg rating — 46,388 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 4.04 avg rating — 445,099 ratings
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The Last Days of the Incas
The Last Days of the Incas 4.20 avg rating — 6,888 ratings
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Forty-Ninth
Forty-Ninth 4.13 avg rating — 127 ratings
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Life and Death in the Andes: On the Trail of Bandits, Heroes, and Revolutionaries
Life and Death in the Andes: On the Trail of Bandits, Heroes, and Revolutionaries 4.04 avg rating — 929 ratings
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus 4.05 avg rating — 93,191 ratings
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Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter
Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter 3.75 avg rating — 3,342 ratings
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern 3.87 avg rating — 34,489 ratings
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On Fascism
On Fascism 3.95 avg rating — 641 ratings
20.
A Woman Is No Man
A Woman Is No Man
by: Etaf Rum
4.26 avg rating — 168,537 ratings
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Not Without My Daughter: The Harrowing True Story of a Mother's Courage
Not Without My Daughter: The Harrowing True Story of a Mother's Courage 4.18 avg rating — 37,751 ratings
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The Book Thief
The Book Thief 4.39 avg rating — 2,802,656 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century 4.01 avg rating — 25,929 ratings
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I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban 4.16 avg rating — 612,744 ratings
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The First English Actresses: Women and Drama, 1660–1700
The First English Actresses: Women and Drama, 1660–1700 3.83 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Four Queens: The Provençal Sisters Who Ruled Europe
Four Queens: The Provençal Sisters Who Ruled Europe 3.89 avg rating — 4,568 ratings
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Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France
Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France 3.93 avg rating — 58 ratings
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A Brief History of Thought: A Philosophical Guide to Living
A Brief History of Thought: A Philosophical Guide to Living
by: Luc Ferry
3.96 avg rating — 4,132 ratings
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Sex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics
Sex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics 3.89 avg rating — 5,178 ratings
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Heretic Queen: Queen Elizabeth I and the Wars of Religion
Heretic Queen: Queen Elizabeth I and the Wars of Religion 3.54 avg rating — 495 ratings
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Virgins of Venice: Broken Vows and Cloistered Lives in the Renaissance Convent
Virgins of Venice: Broken Vows and Cloistered Lives in the Renaissance Convent 3.72 avg rating — 266 ratings
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Courtesans: Money, Sex and Fame in the Nineteenth Century
Courtesans: Money, Sex and Fame in the Nineteenth Century 3.74 avg rating — 1,124 ratings
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Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore
Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore 4.18 avg rating — 1,440 ratings
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Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King
Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King 3.87 avg rating — 7,980 ratings
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Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge
Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge 3.69 avg rating — 8,259 ratings
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Finding Atlantis: A True Story of Genius, Madness, and an Extraordinary Quest for a Lost World
Finding Atlantis: A True Story of Genius, Madness, and an Extraordinary Quest for a Lost World 3.69 avg rating — 265 ratings
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The Seekers: The Story of Man's Continuing Quest to Understand His World
The Seekers: The Story of Man's Continuing Quest to Understand His World 3.95 avg rating — 951 ratings
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The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code 4.01 avg rating — 3,646 ratings
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Your Meaning
Your Meaning 4.11 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The Century of Revolution, 1603-1714
The Century of Revolution, 1603-1714 3.95 avg rating — 331 ratings
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Mythbusting the Cult of Confucius: What the Chinese Really Are, How to Understand Them and Why We Need to
Mythbusting the Cult of Confucius: What the Chinese Really Are, How to Understand Them and Why We Need to 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Antonio's Will
Antonio's Will 4.26 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Pompeii : The Living City
Pompeii : The Living City 3.90 avg rating — 305 ratings
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Globalocity: The Adventures of Raymond
Globalocity: The Adventures of Raymond it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The True Story of Human Evolutionary Genesis
The True Story of Human Evolutionary Genesis 4.67 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Legendary Life of Bee Ho Gray
The Legendary Life of Bee Ho Gray 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings
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White Spirit
White Spirit 4.41 avg rating — 388 ratings
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Barangay to Broadway: Filipino American Theater History
Barangay to Broadway: Filipino American Theater History 4.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Brushstrokes in Time
Brushstrokes in Time 4.69 avg rating — 58 ratings
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The Island of Sea Women
The Island of Sea Women
by: Lisa See
4.32 avg rating — 154,882 ratings
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Cultures of the Jews: A New History
Cultures of the Jews: A New History 4.13 avg rating — 53 ratings
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AMERICA IS THE TRUE OLD WORLD: MU DISCOVERED
AMERICA IS THE TRUE OLD WORLD: MU DISCOVERED 4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Restore your Dreamland : 17 stories on the mysteries, wonders and science of sleep
Restore your Dreamland : 17 stories on the mysteries, wonders and science of sleep 4.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Evil Roman Emperors: The Shocking History of Ancient Rome's Most Wicked Rulers from Caligula to Nero and More
Evil Roman Emperors: The Shocking History of Ancient Rome's Most Wicked Rulers from Caligula to Nero and More 3.89 avg rating — 289 ratings
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There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness
There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness 4.26 avg rating — 311 ratings
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Storytellers at the Columbia River
Storytellers at the Columbia River 4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha
Memoirs of a Geisha 4.16 avg rating — 2,082,753 ratings
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Black Athena: Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, Vol. 1: The Fabrication of Ancient Greece, 1785-1985
Black Athena: Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, Vol. 1: The Fabrication of Ancient Greece, 1785-1985 4.10 avg rating — 550 ratings
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Wind of Change: An American Journey in Post-Soviet Russia
Wind of Change: An American Journey in Post-Soviet Russia really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Progress: How One Idea Built Civilization and Now Threatens to Destroy It
Progress: How One Idea Built Civilization and Now Threatens to Destroy It 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination
The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination 4.18 avg rating — 2,614 ratings
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The Making of the English Working Class
The Making of the English Working Class 4.21 avg rating — 3,644 ratings
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A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America 4.18 avg rating — 5,275 ratings
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The Story of Art
The Story of Art 3.96 avg rating — 448,965 ratings
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A Distant Grief: Australians, War Graves and the Great War
A Distant Grief: Australians, War Graves and the Great War 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens
Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens 3.90 avg rating — 575 ratings
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Red Dead's History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past
Red Dead's History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past 4.28 avg rating — 1,108 ratings
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Progress: How One Idea Built Civilization and Now Threatens to Destroy It
Progress: How One Idea Built Civilization and Now Threatens to Destroy It 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself
The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself 4.11 avg rating — 11,776 ratings
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The Nameless Names: Recovering the Missing ANZACS
The Nameless Names: Recovering the Missing ANZACS 4.20 avg rating — 20 ratings
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A History of the Jews
A History of the Jews 4.17 avg rating — 2,629 ratings
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Custodians of Wonder: Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive
Custodians of Wonder: Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive 4.21 avg rating — 1,212 ratings
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John Milton: A Hero of Our Time
John Milton: A Hero of Our Time 3.92 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Night
Night 4.38 avg rating — 1,334,392 ratings
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Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War
Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War 4.27 avg rating — 2,101 ratings
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In Praise of Doubt: How to Have Convictions Without Becoming a Fanatic
In Praise of Doubt: How to Have Convictions Without Becoming a Fanatic 3.74 avg rating — 628 ratings
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Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls, #1)
Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls, #1)
by: Lisa See
3.92 avg rating — 160,780 ratings
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In Afghanistan: Two Hundred Years of British, Russian and American Occupation
In Afghanistan: Two Hundred Years of British, Russian and American Occupation 3.89 avg rating — 118 ratings
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The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women: A Social History
The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women: A Social History 3.86 avg rating — 1,977 ratings
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Evolution, Creationism, and Other Modern Myths: A Critical Inquiry
Evolution, Creationism, and Other Modern Myths: A Critical Inquiry 3.67 avg rating — 91 ratings
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The Lost Art of Drawing the Line: How Fairness Went Too Far
The Lost Art of Drawing the Line: How Fairness Went Too Far 3.66 avg rating — 61 ratings
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The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls
The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls 3.82 avg rating — 3,737 ratings
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Science and Religion: A Historical Introduction
Science and Religion: A Historical Introduction 3.83 avg rating — 109 ratings
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1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance
1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance 3.45 avg rating — 1,543 ratings
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The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap
The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap 3.98 avg rating — 2,569 ratings
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The Weaker Vessel
The Weaker Vessel 3.92 avg rating — 1,424 ratings
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The Great Medieval Heretics: Five Centuries of Religious Dissent
The Great Medieval Heretics: Five Centuries of Religious Dissent 3.64 avg rating — 137 ratings
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Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America
Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America 3.86 avg rating — 2,047 ratings
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Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer (British Commonwealth, United States, United Nations, 1993)
Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer (British Commonwealth, United States, United Nations, 1993) 3.85 avg rating — 407 ratings
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A Dance with Jane Austen: How a Novelist and Her Characters Went to the Ball
A Dance with Jane Austen: How a Novelist and Her Characters Went to the Ball 4.14 avg rating — 203 ratings
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Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History, Vol. I)
Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History, Vol. I) 4.37 avg rating — 3,471 ratings
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Travels with Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life
Travels with Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life 3.81 avg rating — 3,418 ratings
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Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul
Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul 3.63 avg rating — 13,090 ratings
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March Of The Titans The Complete History Of The White Race
March Of The Titans The Complete History Of The White Race 4.33 avg rating — 228 ratings
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Tales from a Revolution: Bacon's Rebellion and the Transformation of Early America
Tales from a Revolution: Bacon's Rebellion and the Transformation of Early America 3.57 avg rating — 137 ratings
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City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920
City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920 3.93 avg rating — 225 ratings
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Brutus of Troy: And the Quest for the Ancestry of the British
Brutus of Troy: And the Quest for the Ancestry of the British 3.29 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Disappearing Appalachia in Tennessee: A Picture of a Vanished Land and Its People
Disappearing Appalachia in Tennessee: A Picture of a Vanished Land and Its People 3.36 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Wayfaring Strangers: The Musical Voyage from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia
Wayfaring Strangers: The Musical Voyage from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia 4.28 avg rating — 201 ratings
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Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia 3.81 avg rating — 6,040 ratings
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