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9780802119803

Paradise Lust Searching for the Garden of Eden

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  • ISBN13:

    9780802119803

  • ISBN10:

    0802119808

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2011-08-02
  • Publisher: Grove Press

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Summary

It seems that ever since mankind was kicked out of the Garden of Eden for eating the forbidden fruit, we've been trying to get back in. Wilensky-Lanford introduces readers to the enduring modern quest to locate the Garden of Eden on Earth.

Author Biography

Brook Wilensky-Lanford grew up on Mount Desert Island, Maine, studied religion at Wesleyan University, and is a graduate of Columbia University’s M.F.A. program in nonfiction. She has written for Salon, Triple Canopy, Killing the Buddha, Lapham’s Quarterly, and The Exquisite Corpse. She lives in the Garden State.

Table of Contents

Prologuep. ix
Unity
The Last Giant Man of Edenp. 3
The Great Dividep. 24
The Serpent Lessonp. 48
Civilization
The Salt Riverp. 65
Far East of Edenp. 84
Practically Paradisep. 100
The Tree Is Dead, Long Live the Treep. 119
Interlude: Survival of the Witnessp. 132
Progress
The Location Committeep. 141
Mother Eve's Great Decisionp. 160
Back to the Landp. 177
Exile
An Evolving Creationp. 201
The Once and Future Edenp. 221
The Beginning or the End?p. 236
Last Tree Standingp. 252
Notes on Sourcesp. 259
Acknowledgmentsp. 287
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