![]() ![]() While far from the first example of subterranean fiction, a subgenre of adventure fiction, this book was highly influential and helped make the subgenre more popular. This series ultimately numbered 54 books. It is placed as the third book in the Extraordinary Voyages series, though it was added retroactively by the author. Journey to the Centre of the Earth, first published in 1864, is Jules Verne’s second novel. Together with a Swiss guide, they descend into the bowels of the earth where an amazing prehistoric world awaits them. The professor travels to Iceland accompanied by his nephew, Axel, a keen young geologist. The coded inscription reveals the existence of a passageway leading to the centre of the earth and that the entrance lies within the crater of an extinct volcano in Iceland. ![]() ![]() Professor Otto Lidenbrock’s great adventure begins by chance when a scrap of paper drops out of an ancient book he has just bought. ![]()
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