Journey to the Center of the Earth

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CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, May 6, 2010 - Fiction - 208 pages
After discovering a coded message in an Icelandic manuscript, Professor Liedenbrock leads an expedition party on an adventure that promises to reveal another world deep in the center of Earth. Their curiosity takes them to the bottom of a crater, left to survive with limited food and water until they discover the promise of the manuscript: an inner Earth complete with a subterranean ocean, petrified forests, and volcanic islands.

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About the author (2010)

Jules Verne was born on February 8, 1828 in Nantes, France. He wrote for the theater and worked briefly as a stockbroker. He is considered by many to be the father of science fiction. His most popular novels included Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and Around the World in Eighty Days. Several of his works have been adapted into movies and TV mini-series. In 1892, he was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in France. He died on March 24, 1905 at the age of 77.

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