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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Voyage Au Centre De La Terre
Paperback, 63 pages
French language
Published Jan. 31, 2002 by Distribooks Inc.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-09-032919-3Copied ISBN!
Journey into the Center of the Earth
161 pages
English language
Published Sept. 26, 2020 by Independently Published.
- ISBN:
- 979-8-6295-6535-2Copied ISBN!
Voyage au centre de la terre
63 pages
French language
Published July 10, 1996 by CLE International.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-09-031917-0Copied ISBN!
Journey to the Center of T
audio cassette
Published by Books On Tape.
- ISBN:
- 978-5-553-66216-5Copied ISBN!
Veinte mil leguas de viaje submarino
400 pages
Spanish language
Published Oct. 30, 2017 by Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-9105-255-5Copied ISBN!
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
Audio CD
English language
Published Feb. 1, 2008 by Blackstone Audio Inc..
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4332-0953-6Copied ISBN!
Journey to the Center of the Earth
English language
Published Sept. 26, 2009 by Magic Wagon.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-61641-252-4Copied ISBN!
Journey to the Center of the Earth
English language
Published Sept. 26, 1992 by Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4668-0354-1Copied ISBN!
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Paperback
English language
Published June 10, 1980 by Dutton Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-89375-417-4Copied ISBN!
20,000 Leagues under the Sea
294 pages
Published Feb. 4, 1972 by Dutton Adult.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-460-01319-2Copied ISBN!
Journey to the Center of the Earth
English language
Published Sept. 26, 2009 by The Editorium, LLC.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4341-0249-2Copied ISBN!
Journey to the Center of the Earth
English language
Published Sept. 26, 2009 by The Editorium, LLC.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4341-1446-4Copied ISBN!
A Journey to the Center of the Earth
Audio cassette
English language
Published Aug. 10, 1997 by Blackstone Audiobooks.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-7861-0585-4Copied ISBN!
Journey to the centre of the earth
English language
Published July 10, 1972 by MacGibbon & Kee.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-261-10004-6Copied ISBN!
A journey to the centre of the earth.
305 pages
English language
Published July 10, 1901 by Scribner.
- OCLC Number:
- 6004884
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