This reminds me of Jules Verne’s Mysterious Island, which was the first adult book I ever read. It featured a catastrophic underwater volcanic explosion. Great

This reminds me of Jules Verne’s Mysterious Island, which was the first adult book I ever read. It featured a catastrophic underwater volcanic explosion. Great book, it’s a Robinson Crusoe-style sequel to Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Interestingly, Verne wrote the book nine years before the Krakatoa explosion. He must have been thinking of Tambora, though I’m not sure that eruption was well recognized at the time.