Atlantis, Ragnarok, Fire in the Sky

In Atlantis Ragnarok, the calm mask of Earth's history is stripped away to reveal the chaos beneath. From the great ice sheets of the Pleistocene to the shattered gravels of forgotten continents, this work revisits the nineteenth-century debate between gradualism and catastrophe through modern eyes. Ignatius Donnelly's once-ridiculed vision of a world consumed by cosmic fire becomes the entry point for a sweeping investigation of impacts, floods, and mythic memory-a scientific and poetic sy...