A Journey to the Centre of the Earth is a science fiction adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, part of his series of Voyages Extraordinaires. It tells how the German professor Otto Lidenbrock, his nephew Axel and the Icelandic guide Hans descend into an extinct volcano in Iceland, after deciphering a coded message from a sixteenth-century alchemist. Underground they find an immense cavern with a sea and prehistoric plants and animals. The novel mixes real scientific ideas of the time, such as geology and palaeontology, with imagination, though the idea of a hollow Earth is false. It has been adapted many times, and remains among Verne's most popular works.
Before and after
- from September 1864 to November 1864First Chōshū Expedition
- from 18 September 1864 to 27 December 1864Franklin–Nashville campaign
- from 15 November 1864 to 21 December 1864Sherman's March to the Sea
- 24 November 1864Birth of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
- 25 November 1864Publication of A Journey to the Centre of the Earth
- 30 November 1864Battle of Franklin
- from 27 December 1864 to 1 March 1870Paraguayan War
- c. 1865Birth of Yun Ch'iho
- 1865Founding of Nottingham Forest F.C.
More in Art, literature & culture
- 1792Publication of La Marseillaise
- 5 May 1821Founding of The Guardian
- 7 May 1824Beethoven's Ninth Symphony premieres
- c. 1860sImpressionism
- 26 November 1865Publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- 19 March 1882Construction of Basilica and Expiatory Church of the Holy Family
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