[Public Domain Review] The Last Great Explorer: William F. Warren and the Search for Eden

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  THE LAST GREAT EXPLORER: WILLIAM F. WARREN AND THE SEARCH FOR EDEN


*Of all the attempts throughout history to geographically locate the 
Garden of Eden one of the most compelling was that set out by minister 
and president of Boston University, William F. Warren.  Brook 
Wilensky-Lanford looks at the ideas of the man who, in his book 
/Paradise Found/, proposed the home of all humanity to be at the North 
Pole.*
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