William F. Warren, Paradise Found: The Cradle of the Human Race at the North Pole. Published in Boston, 1885, by Houghton, Mifflin and Company, sixth edition in the first year of publication. Octavo size, 5.5 x 8 inches (14 X 20 cm); xxvi, 505 pages. This is a former library book, with bookplates, card pocket, and glue remnants on the endpapers, but there are no other markings on the interior or exterior. The pages are in very good condition, with light to moderate foxing to the first 80 pages.
In this book William Warren, a Methodist minister who served as first president of Boston University, advances the theory that Atlantis was located at the North Pole and was the source of all humanity. He supports this through detailed analysis of origin stories from around the world.
Educated at Wesleyan University where he was a member of the Mystical Seven, Warren was instrumental in making Boston University coeducational in all its departments and was a founder of Wellesley College.
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