Two Captains, One Wine-Dark Sea
What happens when literature’s great wanderer who desperately wants to go home meets literature’s great wanderer who has convinced himself he no longer needs one?
In this Common Room Deep Dive, we return to Chesterton Radio’s original adventure The Nautilus and the Wine-Dark Sea and place it beside the two great works that inspired it: Homer’s Odyssey and Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
Odysseus has spent years trapped upon the sea, enduring monsters, temptation, shipwreck, loss, and even the world of the dead for one reason:
Ithaca.
Captain Nemo has done almost the…
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