Planet Open Knowledge The Tragedy of the Seas (1841)
Adam Green - September 11, 2018 in accidents, disaster, ocean, sea, shipwreck, water
Colourful compendium of 37 nautical catastrophes that took place in bodies of water around the world between 1803 and 1840.
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The Tragedy of the Seas (1841)
Adam Green - September 11, 2018 in accidents, disaster, ocean, sea, shipwreck, water
Colourful compendium of 37 nautical catastrophes that took place in bodies of water around the world between 1803 and 1840.
Master of Disaster, Ignatius Donnelly
Phil Morrow - October 24, 2017 in apocalypse, Atlantis, Books, catastrophe, disaster, disaster porn, Featured Articles, Ignatius Donnelly, Literature, pseudo-science, Religion, Myth & Legend, Science & Medicine, science fiction
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. The magnificent civilization of Atlantis shattered and plunged beneath the sea in February 1882. Or, to be more […]
Ignatius Donnelly: Recipes for Disaster
Adam Green - September 27, 2017 in apocalypse, Atlantis, Books, catastrophe, disaster, disaster porn, Featured Articles, Ignatius Donnelly, Literature, pseudo-science, Religion, Myth & Legend, Science & Medicine, science fiction
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.