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JULES VERNE JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH Translated with an Introduction and Notes by William Butcher to sum up all the.. knowledge amassed by science, and to re-write the history of the universe. Thus Hetzel, Verne s publisher, ambitiously announced the aims of the se-ries the Extraordinary Journeys in the Known and Unknown Worlds, with which Verne launched his literary career. After Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864) came such other masterpieces as The Adventures of Captain Hatteras, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, and Around the World in Eighty Days. Journey to the Centre of the Earth has been consistently praised for its style and vision of the world. It explores the prehistory of the globe, but can also be read as a psychological quest, for the journey itself is as im-portant as arrival or discovery. Professor Lidenbrock and Axel travel across Iceland, and then down through an extinct crater towards a sun-less sea where they enter a living past and are confronted with the origins of man.
JULES VERNE JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH Translated with an Introduction and Notes by William Butcher ‘ to sum up all the. . . knowledge amassed by science, and to re-
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