Theodor Hertzka, a Viennese economist and editor, imagines an international society of idealists founding a colony in the Kenya highlands near Lake Victoria, where land is free to all, capital is lent without interest and workers own their associations. The narrative tours its towns, electric railways and mills to show how such an economy would work.
A once-influential utopia of 1890 that inspired real colonising attempts; its view of Africa is that of a European colonist. Download the free EPUB.