Off on a Comet Book 1 Chapter 10

In which the intrepid Count Timascheff commissions Lieutenant Procope to navigate the stout schooner Dobryna in search of the vanished coast of Algeria, only to find a puzzling expanse of shallow, metallic-dusted sea concealing no sign of land or human habitation. Their scientific instruments offer little guidance amid altered celestial positions and unfamiliar waters, yet the determined crew persists in their patient survey, confronting the profound mysteries of this transformed world.