Book Review: Australian Utopian dream in Paraguay – A ticket to Paradise
Book for the Week – A ticket to Paradise Blue-eyed South Americans with surnames like Smith and McQueen live in the wilds of Paraguay. This is the intriguing story of their ancestors, an idealistic Australian journalist called William Lane, and a colony called New Australia. In 1893, Australian journalist William Lane dreamed of creating a utopia where his socialist ideals could flourish, far away from his home in Queensland. He enlisted 238 followers and convinced them to sail across the Pacific with…