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 …
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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, located 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. Journey inspired many later authors, including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in his novel The Lost World, Edgar Rice Burroughs in his Pellucidar series, and J. R. R. Tolkien in The Hobbit.
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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Paperback, 268 pages
English language
Published June 18, 2007 by BiblioBazaar.
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Journey to the Center of the Earth
English language
Published Dec. 16, 2014
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- 978-1-5055-7394-7Copied ISBN!
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
English language
Published March 21, 2017
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- 978-1-5098-2788-6Copied ISBN!
Journey to the center of the Earth
English language
Published March 17, 2008 by Simon & Schuster.
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- 978-1-4165-6146-0Copied ISBN!
Voyage au centre de la terre
120 pages
French language
Published March 17, 1988
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- 978-2-7367-0377-6Copied ISBN!
Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Bantam Classics)
English language
Published March 17, 2006
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- 978-0-553-21397-3Copied ISBN!
Journey to the Center of the Earth
English language
Published March 4, 2005
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- 978-0-486-44088-0Copied ISBN!
A journey to the center of the earth
English language
Published March 17, 1992
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- 978-0-89577-402-6Copied ISBN!
Voyage au centre de la Terre
314 pages
French language
Published Nov. 7, 1972 by Éditions Albin Michel.
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- 978-2-253-01254-2Copied ISBN!
Journey to the centre of the earth
English language
Published March 17, 1996
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- 978-1-85326-287-6Copied ISBN!
Voyage au centre de la terre
French language
Published March 17, 1995
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- 978-2-85922-075-4Copied ISBN!
Voyage au centre de la Terre
French language
Published March 17, 2008 by Le Livre de poche jeunesse.
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- 978-2-01-322758-2Copied ISBN!
Voyage au centre de la Terre
French language
Published March 17, 1980
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- 978-2-211-06947-2Copied ISBN!
Voyage au centre de la Terre : 1864
French language
Published March 17, 2019 by Hatier.
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- 978-2-401-05934-4Copied ISBN!
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