from Amazon:
The intrepid Professor Lindenbrock embarks upon the strangest expedition of the nineteenth century: a journey down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the Earth's very core. In his quest to penetrate the planet's primordial secrets, the geologist--together with his quaking nephew Axel and their devoted guide, Hans--discovers an astonishing subterranean menagerie of prehistoric proportions. Verne's imaginative tale is at once the ultimate science fiction adventure and a reflection on the perfectibility of human understanding and the psychology of the questor. As David Brin notes in his Introduction, though Verne never knew the term "science fiction," Journey to the Centre of the Earth is "inarguably one of the wellsprings from which it all began."

Oops, forgot to make the release entry. This book is on it's way to the UK as a secret santa gift. Hope the receiver enjoys it!

Thank you for this wishlist book :) I put this on my wishlist because scifi Now magazine did a big piece on Jules Verne and this sounded like the sort of book I'd be interested in. Thank you for all the other gifts. Love the Berlin stuff. I hope you had a great christmas.

The title of this book is a good one, take the word 'Journey' for example because that is what it is, a long Journey to not quite the centre of the Earth. There is alot of walking in this book, walking, walking, some sailing, oooh a dinosaur, running, sailing and finally shot out of volcano. I think I've just spoiled the ending.

And they survive!??? how did the raft even last that long on the hot water? Surely they all would have been burned to death!?

I didn't mind reading this, it was okay but I was expecting more dinosaurs and more activity going on once they were underground. I found the translation to be jarring at times and there were lots of scientific names that I didn't understand. I understand that it was ground breaking for it's time but it just wasn't for me.

Happy Reading :)

Wow, this book arrived as quite a surprise. I was not expecting it anymore. 4 months, looks like I have a winner here for the "longest time to reach me" books!

Thanks redfox for this book, it's one of the few Jules Verne I actually haven't read yet! I'll be looking forward to reading it.

Classical Jules Verne. Adventurous journey, science (not really exact anymore, but revealing of its era). Had a nice time reading it, but not the best of his "Extraordinary Voyages" (it was a bit boring at times).

The book is on its way, enjoy!

Received today - thank you for sending and for the postcard 😊