Journey to the Center of the Earth

Journey to the Center of the Earth is one of the first books of the French writer Jules Verne. The book first appeared in 1864.



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[hide] *1 the story  ==The story[ Edit] == Professor Lidenbrock is studying an old Icelandic text encoded runes. Eventually he knows this, having some help of his nephew (also Assistant) Axel, to decipher. The text says:
 * 2 Operations
 * 2.1 Film
 * 2.2 Tv
 * 2.3 Music
 * 3 Trivia
 * 4 external links


 * Descend into the crater van Sneffels Yocul (Snæfellsjökull), serve the shadow, before the first of July will find van den Scartaris daring traveler! and you will reach the center of the Earth. I've done it. Arne Saknussemm.

The professor is taking the trip to Iceland with Axel to be in the sleeping volcano Snæfellsjökull to descend, along with the hired guide Hans. Axel is not very brave and has fear of heights. He is also in love with and he does not want Gräuben 's, his fiancée, off. As a result, he takes the trip initially with the necessary reserves and reluctance.

The Group descends deeper and deeper and also travels southward, away from Iceland. They see all kinds of rock formations, fossils and minerals. At a depth of "thirty hours of walk-" (ca. 150 km) attained the company a subterranean sea, which is called the Lidenbrockzee. The huge cave is illuminated by an electric phenomenon and even weather phenomena for. On a makeshift raft they leave of Gräuben-port (named after Axel's beloved) through the volcanic islet Saknussemm Axel to Cape on the South coast of this vast sea.

The crossing takes many days and the travelers discover prehistoric animals and live even a fight between a pliosaurusand a plesiosaurus . They also end up in a storm.

At Cape Saknussemm prove even prehistoric forests, dinosaurs and prehistoric man to live. The group will find this not very secure and withdraws. Moreover, Saknussemm a cave at the Cape to be entered, what emerges from an old knife and an inscription.

Soon it turns out the way through a rock formation to be blocked. Axel and the professor are trying the block of guncotton to blow, but the blast has an unforeseen side effect. The sea with the raft with Axel, the professor and Hans is in a dark hole sucked.

The flow eventually leads up again, to the crater pipe of a volcano. The water evaporates more and more and a kind of lava dough stays behind. Eventually they lose their consciousness, come with their smooth and all come out and by the crater at the foot of the volcano Cone back. They appear to be on the Italian island of Stromboli .

After Hans goes to have paid each his way. Professor Lidenbrock is very famous and Axel marries his lovable Gräuben. ==Operations[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Film<span class="mw-editsection" len="340" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Tv<span class="mw-editsection" len="345" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Music<span class="mw-editsection" len="342" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ==Trivia<span class="mw-editsection" len="342" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * 1959- Journey to the Center of the Earth, directed by Henry Levin, with Pat Boone and James Mason.
 * 1976- Viaje al centro de la Tierra, Spanish film, directed by Juan Piquer Simón.
 * 2008- Journey to the Center of the Earth: a 3-D film directed by Eric Brevig.
 * 2008- Journey to the Center of the Earth -a direct-to-dvd film directed by David Jones of The Asylum.
 * A version by RHI Entertainment starring Ricky Schroder, Peter Fonda, Victoria Pratt, Steven Grayhm and Mike Dopud was shot on location in Vancouver in the summer of 2007.
 * Several "made for tv"-versions from 1977 and 1993.
 * An animated series entitled Journey to the Centre of the Earth was first broadcast in 1967.
 * A TV movie from 1989 titled Journey to the Center of the Earth. This film just used Verne's idea and title, but for the rest contained a unique story aimed at teenagers.
 * 1974- Journey to the Centre of the Earth, by Rick Wakeman.
 * 2005- Journey to the Centre of the Earth (for brass band), by Peter Graham
 * 2007- Voyage au Centre de la Terre (for brass band and concert band), by Alan Jackman
 * In reality, the Earth's crust has a thickness of only approx. 8 to 64 km.
 * Jules Verne has never been on Iceland, but described the island on the basis of descriptions and maps.
 * The equipment they have brought with them (food, appliances and devices, gunpowder) would in reality not by three man to wear.
 * The protagonists are on Hans after all Germans. In later works are the Germans antagonists or caricatures. This most likely has to do with the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War.