Extraordinary Journeys: Journey to the Centre of the Earth

Name: Extraordinary Journeys: Journey to the Centre of the Earth
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ISBN: 9780199538072

ISBN-10: 0199538077

ISBN-13: 9780199538072

Edition: 2008

Authors: Jules Verne, William Butcher

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Now available in a new translation, this classic of nineteenth century French literature has been consistently praised for its style and its vision of the world. Professor Lidenbrock and his nephew Axel travel across Iceland, and then down through an extinct crater toward a sunless sea where they enter a living past and are confronted with the origins of man. Exploring the prehistory of the globe, this novel can also be read as a psychological quest, for the journey itself is as important as arrival or discovery. Verne's distinctive combination of realism and Romanticism has marked figures as diverse as Sartre and Tournier, Mark Twain and Conan Doyle.

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List price: $9.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.72" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.440

Jules Verne (1828-1905) was a French author best known for his tales of adventure, includingnbsp;Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea,nbsp;Journey to the Center of the Earth, andnbsp;Around the World in Eighty Days. A true visionary, Verne foresaw the skyscraper, the submarine, and the airplane, among many other inventions, and is now regarded as one of the fathers of science fiction.nbsp;