The Nautilus from the Secret Sea

This Model of the Nautilus is from one of the earliest Steam punk works I know of. The book is The Secret Sea by Thomas F. Monteleon and was first published in 1979. The story is about a newly rich man discovering that there are ‘Flux’ gates from this world to others and how to move through them. In the next world over he finds himself and his companion in the middle of a war between Capitan Nemo and his arch enemy Robur the Conqueror. I loved this book and still have a copy of it in my library it’s a little dated and a lot corny but I still reread it once in a while. The Submarine is more or less the Disney Nautilus with a little mysterious Island George Pal and a ww1 U boat mixed in for good effect

The only piece that sets it apart from Vernes work is the 70mm deck gun made for Nemo by Impey Barbican of the Baltimore Gun club.