Paradise Lust: Searching for the Garden of Eden

A "certainly weird . . . strangely wonderful . . . [and] often irresistible" search to find the real Garden of Eden (The New York Times Book Review).

Where, precisely, was God's Paradise? St. Augustine had a theory. So did medieval monks, John Calvin and Christopher Columbus. But when Darwin's theory of evolution changed our understanding of human origins, shouldn't the desire to put a literal Eden on the map have faded away? Not so fast.

This "gloriously researched, pluckily written his...