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 sous les eaux
Paperback, 58 pages
French language
Published Aug. 19, 2004 by Emmanuel Proust.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-84810-020-3Copied ISBN!
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Paperback, 290 pages
Published Jan. 1, 2016 by Qualitas Classics.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-897093-70-2Copied ISBN!
Voyage au centre de la terre
mass market paperback, 487 pages
French language
Published by Pocket.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-266-09161-9Copied ISBN!
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas
Paperback, 460 pages
Published June 7, 2011 by Theophania Publishing.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-77083-221-3Copied ISBN!
Twenty thousand leagues under the sea
224 pages
English language
Published June 15, 2004 by Goddes&Grosset.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-84205-407-9Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 1022827353
Journey to the Center of the Earth
7 audio discs (8 1/2 hr.)
English, French language
Published Feb. 1, 2020 by Naxos.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-0940-1606-1Copied ISBN!
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Hardcover, 528 pages
Published July 11, 2017 by Penguin Classics.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-241-19877-3Copied ISBN!
20000 Meilen unter den Meeren
Hardcover
German language
Published 2023 by Coppenrath.
- ISBN:
- 978-3-649-64608-2Copied ISBN!
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Paperback, 450 pages
Published Jan. 1, 2016 by Qualitas Classics.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-897093-69-6Copied ISBN!
Viaje Al Centro De La Tierra / Journey to the Center of the Earth
Paperback, 312 pages
Spanish language
Published June 30, 2005 by Alianza.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-206-7253-3Copied ISBN!
Veinte Mil Leguas de Viaje Submarino / 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (El Barco De Papel/the Paper Ship)
Paperback, 444 pages
Spanish language
Published Nov. 30, 2003 by Jorge a Mestas Ediciones.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-95311-17-7Copied ISBN!
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Paperback, 384 pages
Published Oct. 21, 2014 by Adlard Coles, Adlard Coles Trade.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4729-0718-9Copied ISBN!
Viaje Al Centro De La Tierra / Journey to the Center of the Earth
Paperback, 308 pages
Spanish language
Published May 26, 2001 by Grupo Anaya Comercial.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-667-0570-7Copied ISBN!
20,000 leagues under the sea
171 pages
English language
Published June 15, 2008 by Playmore, Inc..
- ISBN:
- 978-1-934911-25-9Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 426526782
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Paperback, 146 pages
Published June 28, 2015 by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform.
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- 978-1-5146-4060-9Copied ISBN!
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