Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Verne, Jules / Butcher, William (Lecturer in French and Pure Mathematics, Lecturer in French and Pure Mathematics, Malaysia and France)
Now available in a new translation, this classic of nineteenth century French literature has been consistently praised for its style and its vision of the world. Professor Lidenbrock and his nephew Axel travel across Iceland, and then down through an extinct crater toward a sunless sea where they enter a living past and are confronted with the origins of man. Exploring the prehistory of the globe, this novel can also be read as a psychological...