ASIN: B00M8HMRP4
Publisher: unknown
Pages: 88
By the 1920s, Europe was weary of war. Many on the continent began to dream of finding a place where they could create a peaceful, idyllic life for themselves. Two events came together to convince some of them that they would be able to find it in the Galápagos: the publication of American naturalist William Beebe’s bestselling 1924 book titled Galápagos: World’s End, and the Ecuadorian government’s offer of free plots of land with hunting and fishing rights and no taxes for ten years to anyone wishing to settle there. One such European was Dr. Frederick Ritter, a German dentist, philosopher, and vegetarian. He longed to indulge his raw food theories and work on his theosophist — a “hidden” science that attempts to reconcile scientific, philosophical, and religious disciplines into a unified worldview — treatise in the company of his devoted disciple and girlfriend, Dore Strauch. He ...
