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In 1902, a radical vegetarian and nudist from Nuremberg named August Engelhardt set sail for what was then called the Bismarck Archipelago. His destination: the island Kabakon. His goal: to found a colony based on worship of the sun and coconuts. His malnourished body was found on the beach on…
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Imperium by Swiss writer Christian Kracht is a novel about colonialism. It follows the travails of a young German vegetarian and nudist who buys an island in Papua New Guinea to set up a utopian society. It's a book about the white man's hubris and predicts the rise of fascism in Germany by shining a light on the way the German colonizers lived in Asia. .
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