TITLE: Journey to the Centre of the Earth AUTHOR: Jules Verne TRANSLATOR: William Butcher EDITION: Oxford World's Classics DATE OF PUBLICATION: 2008 (reissue) FORMAT: Paperback ISBN-13: 9780199538072 ______________________________ Description: "Now available in a new translation...
The next day the sky was again overcast; but on the 29th of June, the last day but one of the month, with the change of the moon came a change of weather. The sun poured a flood of light down the crater. Every hillock, every rock and stone, every projecting surface, had its share of the beaming torr...
This is somewhat interesting. It tries to stay scientific instead of totally going off some some tangent like sci-fi does these days. I'm sure in it's time, it would have been beyond amazing because so much of it could have been true for all people knew.
Prof Liedenbrock discovers a note pointing the way to journey to the centre of the earth, and drags his nephew Axel along with him.Axel is the narrator of the whole thing, explaining the science of the time and trying to be the voice of reason as his uncle throws himself into equipping an expedition...
There was a time when this was my favorite book in the world. As a youth, I was captivated by Axel's evocative descriptions of his titular journey. I've probably read it at least a dozen times over the years, so it seemed only natural to revisit it now that I'm working my way through some of my ol...
Journey to the Center of the Earth is a big classic scifi novel. Professor Lidenbrock finds a mysterious coded message in a recent purchase and his nephew Axel manages to decode it to find a way to the center of the earth. Times wasting so Professor Lindenbrock immediately packs up and leaves with A...
I re-read this for my 2014 reading challenge. The category was "relive the magic", so I picked this because I remember liking it when I was younger. Now, I would recommend to kids because I enjoyed it more the first time I read it. Now, my problem with this book is that it's not a timeless adventure...
Nenia's is here. It's lovely. When Audible offered a freebie (I think it was a freebie) of Journey to the Center of the Earth read by Tim Curry, I was excited – Tim Curry! Come on. It almost didn't matter what it was; I kind of place Curry in the same class as Tom Baker – love the actor, adore the ...
The narrator, Axel, and his uncle Otto Liedenbrock take on a journey to the centre of the earth following the discovery of a cryptic note in an old manuscript.As a classic, this seems a bit overrated to me. The narrator is an excitable, sometimes whining youth and the uncle is constantly getting wor...
The narrator, Axel, and his uncle Otto Liedenbrock take on a journey to the centre of the earth following the discovery of a cryptic note in an old manuscript.As a classic, this seems a bit overrated to me. The narrator is an excitable, sometimes whining youth and the uncle is constantly getting wor...
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