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The wonderfully crisp, steadily-paced British enunciation of reader Philpott, combined with an excellent abridgment and well-chosen musical interludes of classical music, make this production outstanding. The music is appropriately eerie and somber, with flashes of excitement. Naxos has outdone itself. D.W. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine


Review
?The reason Verne is still read by millions today
is simply that he was one of the best storytellers
who ever lived.??Arthur C. Clarke


Book Description
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This edition of Journey to the Center of the Earth includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by Andre Norton.

It was a secret message by an ancient alchemist, found on a crumbling scrap of parchment. And if Saknussemm was right, then every theory about the molten core of the earth is wrong. Prof. Otto Lidenbrock has to learn the truth. So Lidenbrock, his nephew Axel, and the Icelandic hunter Hans climb down the cone of an arctic volcano and into...

A realm of awesome mystery, weird beauty--and deadly peril. Where vast caverns and endless mazes lead to an underground ocean, living fire, and prehistoric monsters. But where any wrong turn, any misstep, can leave the explorers forever trapped in the eternal darkness of a planet-sized tomb...

Buried alive at the heart of the world....



Language Notes
Text: English, French (translation)


Download Description
The manuscript volume and the smaller document are written in different hands, he said, "the cryptograph is of much later date than the book; there is an undoubted proof of the correctness of my surmise. An irrefragable proof I took it to be. The first letter is a double M, which was only added to the Icelandic language in the twelfth century.


The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature
Novel by Jules Verne, published in 1864 in French as Voyage au centre de la Terre. It is the second book in his popular science-fiction series Voyages extraordinaires (1863-1910). Otto Lidenbrock, an impetuous German professor of geology, discovers an encoded manuscript in which a 16th-century explorer claims to have found a passageway to the center of the Earth. Otto impulsively prepares a subterranean expedition, enlisting his young nephew Axel and a stoic Icelandic guide, Hans Bjelke. After descending into an extinct volcano in Iceland, the men spend several months in a underground world of luminous rocks, antediluvian forests, and fantastic sea creatures until they ride a volcanic eruption out of Stromboli Island, off the coast of Italy.


Card catalog description
A retelling of the Jules Verne classic in which a group of people journey into the crater of a volcano to find the center of the earth.


From the Publisher
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ANNOTATION

A team of explorers makes an expedition into a crater in Iceland which leads to the center of the earth and to incredible and horrifying discoveries.

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