The story involves a German professor (Otto Lidenbrock in the original French, Professor Von Hardwigg in the most common English translation) who believes there are volcanic tubes going toward the center of the Earth. Many of them have been made into feature length films.Download cover art Download CD case insert A Journey to the Centre of the Earth Verne is one of the two most translated authors of all time. These timeless classics hold the same fascination today as they did when they were first written. This series included such notable works as Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), From the Earth to the Moon (1865), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1869), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1872). Some of his most successful novels appeared as a series collectively known as Extraordinary Voyages.
Wells, is considered the “Father of Science Fiction.” Verne wrote over 50 novels and numerous short stories. Verne wrote about undersea, air, and space travel long before any navigable or practical craft were invented. True visionary with an extraordinary talent for writing adventure stories, his writings incorporated the latest scientific knowledge of his day and envisioned technological developments that were years ahead of their time. He maintained a large library and always kept up on scientific and technological progress. Jules Verne (1828-1905) was a French novelist who pioneered the genre of science fiction. The travelers encounter one stirring adventure after another as they explore deep within the bowels of the earth. They discover huge caverns, luminous rocks, a subterranean sea, primitive forests, and fearsome prehistoric creatures that time had forgot. They soon find a strange underground world where the laws of science are turned upside down. The professor immediately sets off on a daring journey to Iceland where he and his companions enter into an extinct volcano and make their way to the center of the earth.
On it is a coded message that reveals directions to a secret passageway that leads deep within the earth’s interior. An eccentric geology professor acquires an old book and hidden within its pages finds an ancient parchment.
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