Journey to the Center of the Earth

Jules Verne's founding adventure sends a stubborn professor and his reluctant nephew down a volcano into a hidden underworld of oceans, storms and prehistoric wonders beneath our feet.

At a glance An eccentric mineralogist deciphers a coded parchment left by a medieval alchemist, and… What it's about Journey to the Center of the Earth follows Professor Lidenbrock, his… Down there they discover vast caverns, a subterranean sea, electrical storms and… Themes Verne celebrates scientific curiosity and the nineteenth-century hunger to map…

Journey to the Center of the Earth follows Professor Lidenbrock, his anxious nephew Axel, and their stoic Icelandic guide Hans as they descend through an extinct Icelandic volcano into the world beneath.