In the summer of 1977 James Weir came upon a walled garden in southeastern Turkey that seemed to speak to him of something deep in our collective memory.
If Eden ever had an earthly reality, he speculated, then perhaps this was one of its possible locations. Circumstance took the author to the Persian Gulf, to Ethiopia and Africa's Great Rift Valley, to Iran, Yemen, and Bahrain, and ultimately back to Turkey, and though his journeys were never a conscious search for Eden, they became that for him in retrospect.

Weir takes us with him on this inner and outer journey through literature, science, theology, and archaeology. Handsomely made and wonderfully portable, this compact and literate travelogue is as much about the journey as the destination.