Niels Klim's Journey Under the Ground

by Ludvig Holberg and Louis Holberg

Book Overview

Fantastic adventures at the center of the earth await a penniless Norwegian student after he plunges into a bottomless hole in a cave. Niels Klim discovers worlds within our own - exotic civilizations... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1533239126
• ISBN13: 9781533239129
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Fantastical literature

This is the first "journey into the hollow Earth" novel. Written shortly after Gulliver's Travels, by a Danish author. Much less satirical than Gulliver, this is still a mix of philosophical comment and adventure. Though adventures there are aplenty with warring birds, talking instruments, intelligent trees, and a sort of mini-solar system in the very center of the Earth. Bison Frontiers of Imagination have been diligently reprinting the often lost or ignored "science fiction" of the past. Here we have the first journey into the hollow Earth written by a contemporary of Jonathan Swift, but a largely forgotten book. Pick it up, no one you know has read it...