Jules Verne-Journey to the Center of the Earth

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Jules Verne-Journey to the Center of the Earth The story is told through the eyes of sixteen-year-old Axel and begins precisely on Sunday, May 24, 1863, when Professor Lidenbrock accidentally discovers an encrypted document of the 16th-century Icelandic alchemist Arne Saknussemm. He manages to decipher the text written in runic script and discovers that Saknussemm claims in the document that he descended to the center of the Earth. The professor immediately organizes an expedition to Iceland, because according to Saknussemm, the entry point for the underground journey is in one of the three craters of the extinct Icelandic volcano Snæffelsjökull, namely in the one where the shadow of the Scartaris peak falls on the last day of June. After determining the correct crater, the expedition began to descend into the depths of the earth. Electric lamps provided the travelers with light, and they were saved from thirst by an underground river found. In twenty days they covered about 130 kilometers and found themselves at a depth of about 24 kilometers. On the ninth of August, travelers made an incredible discovery. At a depth of about 55 kilometers below the earth's surface, they entered a gigantic cavity lit by a kind of electric glow (which Verne likened to the aurora borealis), in which was a vast subterranean sea. On its shores, the expedition found a forest of huge mushrooms and many extinct Mesozoic and Tertiary plant and animal species. The travelers built a raft and set off on August 13 for a cruise where they could watch an ichthyosaur versus a plesiosaur. In a week they covered more than 400 kilometers and five days later they estimated that they had already passed under England and France (the whole sea was finally almost 900 kilometers wide). After landing on the other shore, they even found a group of mastodons, watched by a proto-human about 12 feet (ie 3.6 meters) tall. The travelers also discovered Saknussemm's sign here, showing the next path to the underworld. However, they were prevented from doing so by a cave-in, which they tried to blow away using gunpowder. They paddled out to sea before the explosion, but the explosion was bigger than they expected. The raft was driven into a large fissure by the released stream of water, after some time it entered a chimney full of rising water and magma, and was finally ejected to the earth's surface on August 28. The travelers soon discovered that they had reached the depths of the Earth through a side crater of the Stromboli volcano in the Aeolian Islands north of Sicily, and returned home with great glory. Thanks to the young narrator, the novel has a huge impact, because Axel's knowledge cannot be so extensive due to his age that Jules Verne could fill his work with scientific facts, which often diluted the plot of his stories. Therefore, despite its unsustainable scientific basis, this book belongs to Verne's still very popular works

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