Calico Classics Illustrated: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Calico Classics Illustrated: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea — page 1
1 A Shifting Reef The year 1866 was marked by strange events at sea Several ships met with a long glowing object of enormous size The thing moved incredibly fast and had no set migration or patch of ocean in which to dwell It might have been allowed to exist in peace had it not done the one unforgivable thing it endangered ships And specifi cally it damaged a ship owned by the famous English shipowner Cunard In April 1867 the Scotia was struck by something that pierced its hull with a neat hole in the shape of a perfect triangle The ship limped home safely but the damage was enough to bring about the public outcry to rid the seas of this mysterious creature 4