AdvertisementDeath By Coconut: A Story Of Food Obsession Gone Too FarDecember 03, 2015Nina MartyrisfacebookEmailGerman nudist August Engelhardt sits in front of his thatched tent-like hut on the island of Kabakon (in what is now Papua New Guinea) with the books that he brought with him from Germany. In 1902, he moved to the South Pacific to start a utopian cult that revolved around two orbs: the coconut and the sun. (Courtesy of Christian Kracht, author of Imperium)