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 geologisttogether with his quaking nephew Axel and their devoted guide, Hansdiscovers 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." From the Trade Paperback edition.

David Brin is the Hugo Award–winning author of fifteen bestselling novels and collections, including <b>Earth, The Postman,</b> and the <b>Uplift</b> saga. His nonfiction book, <b>The Transparent Society,</b> won the American Library Association’s Obeler Freedom of Speech Award.