The Prime Minister of Paradise: The True Story of a Lost American History

by John Jeremiah Sullivan

Book Overview

The forgotten history of a colonial-era Utopia resonates to the present day in this epic of narrative nonfiction in the tradition of David Grann's The Lost City of Z and Rinker Buck's The Oregon Trail In 1735, charismatic German lawyer and accused atheist Christian Gottlieb Priber fled Germany, under threat of arrest, bound for colonial South Carolina. When he arrived, he sold his possessions and hiked 400 miles west, into the woods of what is now...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812994973
• ISBN13: 9780812994971
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Random House
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"