Journey to the Center of the EarthThe intrepid Professor Lindenbrock embarks upon the strangest expedition of the nineteenth century: a journey down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the Earth’s very core. In his quest to penetrate the planet’s primordial secrets, the geologist—together with his quaking nephew Axel and their devoted guide, Hans—discovers an astonishing subterranean menagerie of prehistoric proportions. Verne’s imaginative tale is at once the ultimate science fiction adventure and a reflection on the perfectibility of human understanding and the psychology of the questor. As David Brin notes in his Introduction, though Verne never knew the term “science fiction,” Journey to the Centre of the Earth is “inarguably one of the wellsprings from which it all began.” |
Contents
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 5 |
Section 3 | 31 |
Section 4 | 37 |
Section 5 | 43 |
Section 6 | 49 |
Section 7 | 54 |
Section 8 | 84 |
Section 10 | 116 |
Section 11 | 123 |
Section 12 | 135 |
Section 13 | 156 |
Section 14 | 189 |
Section 15 | 198 |
Section 16 | 203 |
Section 17 | 208 |
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American Science Fiction Tv: Star Trek, Stargate and Beyond Jan Johnson-Smith No preview available - 2005 |