"There, under my eyes, destroyed, ruined, lay a town", illustration by Alphonse de Neuville depicting Captain Nemo's discovery of Atlantis, in Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1875).
Featured on PDR in the essay Master of Disaster, Ignatius Donnelly
The destruction of Atlantis, cataclysmic comets, and a Manhattan tower made entirely from concrete and corpse — Carl Abbott on the life and work of a Minnesotan writer, and failed politician, with a mind primed for catastrophe.
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There, under My Eyes, Destroyed, Ruined, Lay a Town
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1875
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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