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EDEN UNDONE: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War I

At the height of the Great Depression, Los Angeles oil mogul George Allan Hancock and his crew of Smithsonian scientists came upon a gruesome scene: two bodies, mummified by the searing heat, on the shore of a remote Galápagos island. For the past four years Hancock and other American elites had traveled the South Seas to collect specimens for scientific research. On one trip to the Galápagos, Hancock encountered an equally exotic group of humans: European exiles who had fled political and economic unrest pre-World War II, hoping to create a utopian paradise. One was so devoted to a life of isolation that he’d had his teeth extracted and replaced with a set of steel dentures.

In EDEN UNDONE: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn…