Satan came to Floreana Island: Frederick Ritter's Life as

Satan came to Floreana Island: Frederick Ritter's Life as Robinson on Galapagos

By the 1920s, Europe was weary of war. Many on the continent began to dream of finding a place where they could create a peaceful, idyllic life for themselves. Two events came together to convince some of them that they would be able to find it in the GalÃ¡pagos: the publication of American naturalist William Beebeâ€™s bestselling 1924 book titled GalÃ¡pagos: Worldâ€™s End, and the Ecuadorian governmentâ€™s offer of free plots of land with hunting and fishing rights and no taxes for ten years to anyone wishing to settle there. One such European was Dr. Frederick Ritter, a German dentist, philosopher, and vegetarian. He longed to indulge his raw food theories and work on his theosophist â€” a â€œhiddenâ€ science that attempts to reconcile scientific, philosophical, and religious disciplines into a unified worldview â€” treatise in the company of his devoted disciple and girlfriend, Dore Strauch. He decided that the GalÃ¡pagos would make a perfect base for those endeavors. They arrived on Floreana Island in 1929. Over the following three years, Dr. Ritter wrote letters back home , which became highly popular. Much to the Rittersâ€™ disappointment, however, the popularity of their story began to draw other would-be inhabitants to Floreana. In September 1932, Margret and Heinz Wittmer of Cologne, Germany, came to Floreana. Like others before them, they came for a more peaceful lifestyle and to avoid post-war Germanyâ€™s financial meltdown. But unlike most of them, the Wittmers were extremely successful at agriculture and stayed on. The reception by the Ritters, unfortunately, was cool. Margret and Heinz Wittmer were down-to-earth types, while Dr. Ritter believed his philosophical rhetoric was beyond the intellectual levels of the islandâ€™s newest residents. After his sudden and horrible death Ritter's famous and historical important letters were published 1936 in the German book "Als Robinson auf Galapagos". Untill now, they were never translated into English. Nicolas Montemolinos, the well known Ecuadorian author, is now the first one who translated them. You can read them in this ebook.
Country USA
Author Nicolas Montemolinos
Binding Kindle Edition
Format Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
NumberOfPages 88
PublicationDate 2014-07-28
ReleaseDate 2014-07-28

Country	USA
Author	Nicolas Montemolinos
Binding	Kindle Edition
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
NumberOfPages	88
PublicationDate	2014-07-28
ReleaseDate	2014-07-28

Satan came to Floreana Island: Frederick Ritter's Life as Robinson on Galapagos

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