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...feature writer could have bettered. A free-love back-to-nature colony on the little island of Flo-reana, peeped at and reported from time to time by curious yacht-trippers, had come to a boil, exploded. Two corpses had been found on a neighboring island. "The Empress of Floreana" and her No. 1 lover had disappeared (TIME, Dec. 3, 1934). Of the couple who had been the original settlers the man had mysteriously died. Last week U. S. readers could peruse the tale (ghosted) of the woman survivor whose narrative did not pretend to tell the whole truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Galapagonistics | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

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