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Journey to the Center of the Earth

1991240 pagesRandom House Publishing Group

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A cryptic message hidden inside a volcanic rock sets off an ambitious geologist on a perilous journey to the center of the Earth. Accompanied by his eager student, Professor Oliver Lindenbrock descends into Iceland's Snæfellsjökull volcano in search of a passage and follows in the footsteps of a legendary explorer who vanished decades before.

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Jules Verne was a French author who helped pioneer the science-fiction genre. He is best known for his novels A Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864), From the Earth to the Moon (1865), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1869–1870), Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) and The Mysterious Island (1875). Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before navigable aircraft and practical submarines were invented, and before any means of space travel had been devised. Consequen...

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