Paradise lust
Subtitle: searching for the Garden of Eden
By: Brook Wilensky-Lanford
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780802119803
Subjects: Eden; Paradise
Description: Contending that the search for a literal Garden of Eden has not faded with progressive understandings about evolution, a survey of modern quests to discover Eden's location reveals how the same biblical verses have inspired efforts in numerous regions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-285).
Table of contents: title: Unity. The last giant man of Eden ; The Great Divide ; The serpent lesson; title: Civilization. The Salt River ; Far East of Eden ; Practically Paradise ; The tree is dead, long live the tree; title: Interlude : survival of the witness; title: Progress. The Location Committee ; Mother Eve's great decision ; Back to the land; title: Exile. An evolving creation ; The once and future Eden ; The beginning or the end? ; Last tree standing.