Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780812970098)

The 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."

Author: Jules Verne
ISBN-10: 0812970098
ISBN-13: 9780812970098
Publisher: Penguin Random House LLC (No Starch)
Language: English
Published: 12/09/2003
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.36lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.34w x 0.49d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 9.9
Point Value: 17
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 535 / Journey to the Center of the Earth (Unabridged)