Journey to the Centre of the Earth

Published in 1864, this scientific romance follows Professor Otto Lidenbrock of Hamburg, who deciphers a runic note pointing to a descent into the Icelandic volcano Snaefellsjokull. With his reluctant nephew Axel and the guide Hans, he enters the crater and travels through a sequence of underground galleries, a subterranean sea, prehistoric creatures, and storms that threaten the party. The plot is the journey itself: supplies, orientation, and argument between the professor's certainty and Axel's fear. The novel is an adventure of geology and endurance, written as Axel's first-person record of the expedition.

Bound in cambric grained material blocked with a wrap-around photo. Dark blue slipcase.