All Formats & Editions

"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
An adventurous geology professor chances upon a manuscript in which a 16th-century explorer claims to have found a route to the earth's... Read Full Overview

A beautiful publication with 60 illustrations from the first edition.

Journey to the Center of the Earth was published in 1864 in French under the name Voyage au centre de la Terre. In this science fiction novel, a German professor believes there are... Read Full Overview

A new translation of one of the world's greatest adventure Stories

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... Read Full Overview

This edition contains the English translation and the original text in French. "A Journey to the Center of the Earth" (French: "Voyage au centre de la Terre") is a classic 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne. The story involves German professor Otto Lidenbrock who believes... Read Full Overview

When an eccentric professor acquires an ancient book, a riddle on a spare piece of parchment tucked neatly within its pages leads him and his nephew on an unparalleled adventure. The unlocked riddle brings them to a remote mountain on Iceland, where they enter an extinct volcano... Read Full Overview

"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"--

An ancient book is opened by the eccentric Professor Lidenbrock and his life - and the life of his nephew Axel - is changed for ever. An old piece of paper has tumbled from the book, a priceless parchment that will lead them on a terrifying journey to find what lies at the centre... Read Full Overview

"Viaje al centro de la tierra" es quiz una de las novelas m s conocidas del insigne escritor franc s Julio Verne. Concebida como una de las m s impresionantes aventuras de todos los tiempos plasmadas en papel, fue considerada una genialidad por sus contempor neos, y a n hoy... Read Full Overview

Journey to a prehistoric world at the center of the Earth in this science fiction classic by Jules Verne--now with an arresting new look

Written almost a century before the daring flights of the astronauts, Jules Verne's prophetic novel of man's race to the stars is a classic adventure tale enlivened by broad satire and scientific acumen. When the members of the elite Baltimore Gun Club find themselves lacking... Read Full Overview

Le professeur Lidenbrock trouve un document dans lequel il apprend l'existence d'un volcan ?teint dont la chemin?e pourrait le conduire jusqu'au centre de la Terre. Accompagn? de son neveu Axel et du guide Hans, il se rend au volcan Sneffels, en Islande, et s'engouffre dans les... Read Full Overview

El profesor alem?n Otto Lidenbrock descubre un escrito cifrado de un sabio island?s del siglo XII que afirma haber llegado al centro de la Tierra: Arne Saknussemm (basado en la figura de Arne Magnussen, escritor y recopilador de sagas n?rdicas).El profesor Lidenbrock pretende... Read Full Overview