When Columbus came upon this Venezuelan river, he thought he'd found the entrance to the Garden of Eden
In the autumn of 1477, he sailed on a 
Portuguese ship from Galway to Lisbon, where he found his brother Bartolomeo, 
and... [DOC] [TLE] A Brief History of the European Myth of the Garden [PAR] The Garden of Eden from Genesis is the most well known version, but other lost 
lands ... of rich, fertile islands that many thought might be Atlantis, or Eden, or 
both.