Reviews
The story is fantastic enough to captivate anyone.
--Gulfshore Life
What Lyn Millner does in her outstanding new book . . . is meticulously winnow truth from myth as she fleshes out the characters who were the Koreshans. . . . The result is an account that’s as exhaustive as it is interesting. Millner approaches her subject with an appealingly contemporary voice and sensibilities.
--News-Press
Once Ms. Millner’s book brings the scene to Estero and its surroundings, readers find a colorful portrait of how the broad tendencies of the time mentioned above impact a largely undeveloped rural area. . . .A research extravaganza.
--Naples Florida Weekly
Likely the most comprehensive look into the life and legacy of the Koreshans to date.
--Estero Lifestyle Magazine
Interweaves the stories of Teed, his followers, the press, turn of the century society, and the harsh and beautiful landscape of southwest Florida. I couldn’t recommend it more highly- as high as the heavens above, or even beyond them to China.
--Florida Book Review
Relates the headshaking tale of how Teed converted two hundred seekers into celibate Koreshans and led them from Chicago to a Southwest Florida promised land, based on a religion-science . . . and the irresistible idea that the entire universe was contained in a hollow earth.
--Foreword Reviews
A fun read because Cyrus was (in Lyn’s words) a fascinating lunatic.
--Author Café
A fascinating look at one of Florida’s strangest, yet influential figures.
--Author Café