Fair Are the Woodlands

This novel is based on the diary of a member of a religious utopian community established on a remote archipelago in the mid-nineteenth century.

Inglis Cook was born in the Midwest and attended several schools in the area. Upon graduation from college, he served briefly in the United States Army Reserves, after which he began a graduate studies program. During his years of graduate study, some of his areas of interest were the biology of South Pacific Islands, and the Communitarian settlements, Feminist movements, and Religious ferment in mid-nineteenth century United States of America. These disparate topics are combined in the novel Fair Are the Woodlands.