A Journey to the Center of the Earth
By Jules Verne
2011
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Jules Verne's classic science fiction tale sends Professor Von Hardwigg, his nephew Harry, and their guide Hans through a crater in Iceland and into the earth. As the group explores what is below the outer crust, they encounter many strange and wonderful sights. Their travels from Iceland to Italy uncover a lost world, amazing creatures, and dangerous adventures below us. Join the trek in the Calico Illustrated Classics adaptation of Verne's A Journey to the Center of the Earth.
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Author
Jules Verne
Author · 146 books
Novels of French writer Jules Gabriel Verne, considered the founder of modern science fiction, include Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). This author who pioneered the genre. People best know him for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870). Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before people invented navigable aircraft and practical submarines and devised any means of spacecraft. He ranks behind Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie as the second most translated author of all time. People made his prominent films. People often refer to Verne alongside Herbert George Wells as the "father of science fiction." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules\_V...
