From the discovery of a strange parchment in an old bookseller's shop
to the fantastic descent through a dormant volcano into a subterranean
world of danger and beauty, A Journey to the Center of the Earth is as
wonderfully entertaining today as when it was first published.
One of Jules Verne's finest novels, its unique combination of "hard"
science and vivid imagination helped establish this brilliant Frenchman
as the father of modern science fiction. A high-tension odyssey, it
depicts three men who venture into an unknown, fearsome underworld to
discover what lies at the mysterious center of the earth--while risking
their chances of ever returning to the surface alive.
With an Introduction by Bear Grylls
and an Afterword by Leonard Nimoy