EAN: 9781509827886

JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH - JULES VERN...

Designed to appeal to the book lover  the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of
beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth
printed on high quality paper  and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges  Macmillan
Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.   "Fictional trips to the underground are a
feature of all mythologies  but the best of the nineteenth-century tales is that of Verne."
Isaac Asimov  1966.    A Journey to the Centre of the Earth is an 1864 classic by Jules Verne.
It tells of German professor Otto Lidenbrock who believes there are volcanic tubes going toward
the centre of the Earth. He  his nephew Axel  and their guide Hans descend into the Icelandic
volcano Snæfellsjökull  encountering many adventures  including prehistoric animals and natural
hazards  before eventually coming to the surface again in southern Italy  at the Stromboli
volcano.  This Macmillan Collector's Library edition features illustrations by Édouard Riou
(1833 -1900)  a French painter and illustrator who illustrated six novels by Jules Verne  and
an Afterword by Ned Halley.

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