Imperium
Subtitle: A Fiction of the South Seas
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York City, USA
Language: eng
Translated from: ger
Translation of: Imperium
Format: eBook
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780374709860
Subjects: Pacific area, fiction; Fiction, historical; Fiction, biographical
Description: In 1902, a radical vegetarian and nudist from Nuremberg named August Engelhardt set sail for what was then called the Bismarck Archipelago. His destination: the island of Kabakon. His goal: to establish a colony based on worship of the sun and coconuts. His malnourished body was found on the beach on Kabakon in 1919; he was forty-three years old.