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by Jules
Vernes
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A Journey to the Center of
the Earth (French: Voyage au centre de la Terre), also
translated as A Journey to the Interior of the Earth, is a
classic 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne. The story
involves a German professor (Otto Lidenbrock in the original
French, Professor Von Hardwigg in the most common English
translation) who believes there are volcanic tubes going toward
the center of the Earth. He, his nephew Axel, and their guide
Hans encounter many adventures, including prehistoric animals
and natural hazards, eventually coming to the surface again in
southern Italy. The living organisms they meet reflect
geological time; just as the rock layers become older and older
the deeper they travel, the animals become more and more ancient
the closer the characters approach the center.
From a scientific point of view, this story has not aged quite
as well as other Verne stories, since most of his ideas about
what the interior of the Earth contains have since been soundly
refuted. However, a redeeming point to the story is Verne's own
belief, told within the novel from the viewpoint of a character,
that the inside of the Earth does indeed differ from that which
the characters anticipate. One of Verne's main ideas with his
stories was also to educate the readers, and by placing the
different extinct creatures the characters meet in their correct
geological era, he is able to show how the world looked a long
time ago, stretching from the ice age to the dinosaurs.
The book was inspired by Charles Lyell's Geological Evidences of
the Antiquity of Man of 1863 (and probably also influenced by
Lyell's earlier ground-breaking work "Principles Of Geology",
published 1830 - 33). By that time geologists had abandoned a
literal biblical account of Earth's development and it was
generally thought that the end of the last glacial period marked
the first appearance of humanity, but Lyell drew on new findings
to put the origin of human beings much further back in the deep
geological past. Lyell's book also influenced Louis Figuier's
1867 second edition of La Terre avant le déluge which included
dramatic illustrations of savage men and women wearing animal
skins and wielding stone axes, in place of the Garden of Eden
shown in the 1863 edition.
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