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This small book was born of a single, enduring question: Where is Paradise? For the great Christian minds of late antiquity and the Middle Ages-among them Isidore of Seville and Thomas Aquinas-Paradise was not merely a lost symbol, but a real place, concealed somewhere upon the earth and guarded by mystery. Their testimony helped kindle in Christopher Columbus the daring conviction that the Earthly Paradise might still be reached, and that his own voyage was bound up with its rediscovery. Did he, in fact, come to the threshold of Eden? The pages that follow pursue this question in the wake of Columbus, tracing the spiritual, theological, and geographical clues that converge in his enterprise. What emerges is an inquiry into one of the most enigmatic moments in the history of the world-an exploration in which cartography, exegesis, and prophecy meet, and in which the discovery of new lands becomes inseparable from the search for humanity's lost origin and ultimate destiny.

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""Robert Lazu Kmita belongs to that select group of writers whose literary purview, philosophical wonder, and theological acumen range across the entire field of Western thought (and beyond), yielding nuanced treatments of profound topics that a busy, superficial world rushes past. His little book on Paradise is a case in point. Did that original garden of perfection really exist? Where has Eden gone? Can we fallen creatures return to the world for which we were created-and if so, how? To such perennial questions our author provides answers sifted from the forgotten resources of tradition.""-PETER KWASNIEWSKI, author of Close the Workshop ""Where is the Paradise we have lost? Can we recover it? Can we get back to the Garden? Robert Lazu Kmita asks these beguiling questions and suggests answers as startling as they are orthodox. This fascinating book takes us on a quest into the mists of mystery.""-JOSEPH PEARCE, author of Great Books for Good Men ""Aided by his philosophical expertise and keen spiritual awareness, Kmita has written a concise-yet thorough and thought-provoking-book on the physical location of the earthly Paradise. Seeking to harmonize traditional wisdom with modern knowledge, he confronts a difficult yet important question-and provides an intriguing answer that shows respect for the past while yet remaining faithful to the intellectual standards of the present.""-ROBERT KEIM, author of Via Mediaevalis

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ROBERT LAZU KMITA (b.1971) is a novelist, essayist, and columnist with a PhD in Philosophy. His first novel, The Island without Seasons, was published in 2023. He is also the author and coordinator of numerous books, including an Encyclopedia of J.R.R. Tolkien's World in Romanian. His articles have appeared in VoegelinView, The Imaginative Conservative, The Remnant, Saint Austin Review, Polonia Christiana, Gregorius Magnus, Second Spring, Radici Cristiane, and Philosophy Today, among other publications. Robert publishes regularly at his Substack, Kmita's Library.

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