Jules Verne ~6 hr read

Down an Icelandic volcano and into the hollow depths of the planet, Verne's great subterranean voyage.

Verne's 1864 classic follows the irascible Professor Lidenbrock, his reluctant nephew Axel, and their stalwart guide as a coded parchment sends them plunging through an extinct crater toward the center of the Earth, and a vast underground sea of prehistoric wonders. One of the founding voyages of science fiction, brimming with geology, peril, and awe. Read it for Verne's imagination at full stretch, miles beneath our feet.

In its time

Published in 1871, during the 1870s, under the sea and around the moon.

Reading it

~6 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).