This paper will describe how the books that the Franciscan Cosmographer and noted traveler André Thevet (1516–1590) is known to have owned influenced the writing of his 1557 book "The Singularities of France Antarctique." In Brazil, Thevet appeared to find an image of Paradise, his experiences on that shore were inherently informed by the long-lingering desire to recapture what was lost in humanity's Fall told in the first chapters of Genesis. This paper will demonstrate how Thevet set his account of Brazil within this tradition of Paradise in medieval European literature, and how the apparently earthly Eden which Thevet observed challenged the existing perceptions of Paradise and its possible transcendence of the terrestrial, thus its divine equation with Heaven.