Journey to the Center of the Earth (French: Voyage au centre de la Terre), also translated with the variant titles A Journey to the Centre of the Earth and A Journey into the Interior of the Earth), is a classic science fiction novel by Jules Verne. It was first published …
Voyage au centre de la Terre
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (French: Voyage au centre de la Terre), also translated with the variant titles A Journey to the Centre of the Earth and A Journey into the Interior of the Earth), is a classic science fiction novel by Jules Verne. It was first published in French in 1864, then reissued in 1867 in a revised and expanded edition. Professor Otto Lidenbrock is the tale's central figure, an eccentric German scientist who believes there are volcanic tubes that reach to the very center of the earth. He, his nephew Axel, and their Icelandic guide Hans rappel into Iceland's celebrated inactive volcano Snæfellsjökull, then contend with many dangers, including cave-ins, subpolar tornadoes, an underground ocean, and living prehistoric creatures from the Mesozoic and Cenozoic eras. (The 1867 revised edition inserted additional prehistoric material in Chaps. 37–39.) Eventually the three explorers are spewed back to the surface by an active volcano, Stromboli, in southern Italy.
The category of subterranean fiction existed well before Verne. However his novel's distinction lay in its well-researched Victorian science and its inventive contribution to the science-fiction subgenre of time travel—Verne's innovation was the concept of a prehistoric realm still existing in the present-day world. Not surprisingly, Journey inspired many later authors, including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in his novel The Lost World and Edgar Rice Burroughs in his Pellucidar series.
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- LibraryThing key:
- 32715
- BNF ID:
- 12342582t
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20,000 leagues under the sea
236 pages
English language
Published July 30, 2002 by ABDO Pub..
- ISBN:
- 978-1-57765-806-1Copied ISBN!
Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Paperback, 416 pages
English language
Published June 30, 1982 by Pocket Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-685-05665-3Copied ISBN!
20,000 Leagues under the Sea
96 pages
English language
Published Sept. 5, 2015 by Oxford University Press.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-19-423802-1Copied ISBN!
Twenty Thosand Leagues under the Sea
56 pages
English language
Published June 15, 2010 by Oxford University Press.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-19-424771-9Copied ISBN!
A journey to the centre of the earth.
305 pages
English language
Published July 10, 1874 by Scribner, Armstrong & co..
- OCLC Number:
- 5586978
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
257 pages
English language
Published June 15, 2020 by Independently Published.
- ISBN:
- 979-8-6428-5042-8Copied ISBN!
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
Audio CD, 200 pages
Published Oct. 16, 2005 by www.bnpublishing.com.
- ISBN:
- 978-956-291-278-5Copied ISBN!
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Hardcover
English language
Published June 10, 1998 by Audio Literature.
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- 978-0-7871-1453-4Copied ISBN!
Voyage au Centre de la Terre
audio cd
French language
Published Jan. 1, 2004 by French & European Publications Inc.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-686-55961-0Copied ISBN!
Journey into the Center of the Earth
250 pages
English language
Published Sept. 26, 2020 by Independently Published.
- ISBN:
- 979-8-6342-6669-5Copied ISBN!
A journey to the center of the earth
347 pages
English language
Published July 10, 1962 by Collier Books.
- OCLC Number:
- 3300626
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