Paradise Mislaid

Part history, part travelogue, all riveting story, Paradise Mislaid is author Anne Whitehead’s award-winning account of her quest to discover the story of over 500 idealistic Australians who attempted to establish a socialist Utopia in the jungles of Paraguay at the end of the nineteenth century – and the lives of their contemporary descendants.

First published in 1997, Paradise Mislaid won the New South Wales Premier’s Australian History Award in 1998 and was also shortlisted for the Nita B. Kibble Literary Award that same year. Anne Whitehead’s companion volume, Bluestocking in Patagonia, is also part of the Untapped collection.