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Verne, Jules; Brin, David (Introduction by)
Journey to the Center of the Earth
New York Modern Library 2003 0812970098 / 9780812970098 Trade Paperback Very Good
xv, 195 pp.; 21 cm. First published under title: Voyage au centre de la terre. Translated from the French. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. "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.' / David Brin is the Hugo Award-winning author of fifteen bestselling novels and collections, including Earth, The Postman, and the Uplift saga. His nonfiction book, The Transparent Society, won the American Library Association's Obeler Freedom of Speech Award." - Publisher.
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