Journey to the Center of the Earth is one of the first science-fiction novels by Jules Verne. It has everything for which millions of admirers immediately fell in love with it and love it to this day: thrilling adventures, unsolved mysteries, scientific debates and discoveries, fearlessness and betrayal. Daring travelers descend into the crater of an extinct volcano and penetrate a breathtaking, imagination-defying world, fulfilling a long-held dream of humanity โ to learn the inner structure of the globe and to reconstruct the history of the emergence of life on Earth.