A decade in the making, the first volume of "Recovering the Lost World" reconstructs for the reader the celestial drama that resulted in the civilizations of our modern world: a sky dominated by Saturn and other planets, a southern sky obscured by equatorial rings. The text next discusses well-established prehistory: the Chicxulub crater of 60 million years ago, the Tunguska explosion of 1908, the impact at the start of the Younger Dryas, which caused Earth to get as cold as it ever had, and the Peratt plasmoids which were subsequently seen in the south -- an apparition we call the Phoenix. Then follows the mythology of remote antiquity: the start of time, the benign era of the Gods, the polar configuration when Saturn was located above the north horizon as a giant globe. The world flood of 3147 BC is recounted and the leave-taking of the Gods, followed by the construction of pyramids world-wide. Volume 2 carries on from there.