The suggestion that primitive Eden was at the Arctic Pole seems at first sight the most incredible of all wild and willful paradoxes.

The author was the President of Boston University, and states in the preface that the book is not a work of a dreamer. It is a throughly serious, sincere attempt to present what is to the author's mind, the true and final solution of one of the greatest and most fascinating of all problems connected to the history of mankind. In a word, Mr. Warren believes that the Garden of Eden was at the North Pole. Chapters on the Results of Explorers (such as Prince Eurek and David Livingstone), the Results of Theologians (such as Luther and Calvin) and non-theological scholars (Massey and the discovery of Atlantis), the author's hypothesis (tested and re-tested), astronomical geography, physiographical geology and pre-historic climatology.