Lost Continent

A priest of the old religion, exiled to the Yucatan colony, is recalled to an Atlantis ruled by an empress who took the throne with her own hands - and the mountains have begun to smoke. Hyne claimed to have visited every country on earth; here he wrote the fall of Atlantis in 1899 as a first-person military memoir, dry and matter-of-fact, which is exactly why it still works when the sea comes in. Fifty-five plates of tropical landscape and mountain views by Frederic Edwin Church and Edvard Munch carry the drowned world's heat and smoke through the text.