July 15 – 19, 2024 ‹ Literary Hub


TODAY: In 1866, in Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, the steamer Governor Higginson encounters a mysterious sea creature. During the encounter, the creature shoots two enormous columns of water 150 feet into the air.

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