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The First Eden: The Mediterranean World and Man
The First Eden The Mediterranean World and Man Author:David Attenborough Eden, some will argue, must have had a precise geographical location, and it was probably a small, sandy island somewhere in the Red Sea. But the Garden of Eden in our minds and our myths is surely the primeval wilderness where human beings first wandered; where, in the words of the Bible, grew every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good ... more »for food. There Adam gave names to all living creatures. there one of his sons learned how to domesticat4e sheep, and another started to till the ground and grow crops for the first time. If that is so, then there is good justification for regarding the whole of the Mediterranean world as humanity's first Eden, as I have done in giving this book its title.« less