A story about a young man who walked through all of Europe underground with his scientist uncle inspires people all over the world—and more than a century and a half after it was published…
“Journey to the Center of the Earth” is one of Jules Verne’s most popular novels, repeatedly adapted for film. Written with subtle humor, this extraordinarily exciting story of the eccentric German professor of mineralogy Otto Lidenbrock and his long-suffering young nephew and assistant Axel—who deciphered a manuscript belonging to a mysterious medieval Icelandic alchemist and, following the instructions of that manuscript, set out on a journey full of utterly inconceivable adventures through the earth’s depths—can still capture the imagination of even the most seasoned science-fiction fan.