Journey to the Centre of the Earth

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
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 12/09/2003
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.36lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.34w x 0.49d
ISBN: 9780812970098

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

About the Author
David Brin is the Hugo Award-winning author of fifteen bestselling novels and collections, including Earth, The Postman, and the Uplift saga. His nonfiction book, The Transparent Society, won the American Library Association's Obeler Freedom of Speech Award.