A Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne

"Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth."


" Professor Otto Lidenbrock, a rather eccentric geologist, stumbles across ancient runes in a book from the twelfth-century one day. The runes are written ancient Icelandic and once deciphered reveals that to be written by a famous fifteenth-century explorer, Arne Saknussemm, who was declared a heretic. Once the runes are eventually translated, they read:
Go down into the crater of Snaefells Yocul which the shadow of Scartaris caresses before the calends of July, O audacious traveller, and you will reach the centre of the Earth. I did it. Arne Saknussemm. – p. 25
So off Professor Lidenbrock goes, taking (or rather dragging) along his very reluctant nephew, Axel." - madbibliophile review

　

"One of the oldest themes in storytelling deals with a trip to the
underworld—a plot of such universal appeal that it has even been
given a name: katabasis literature, from the Greek word
signifying descent...Give credit to Jules Verne for taking this
ancient plot and finding a completely new
basis for it—namely the scientific journey
into the underworld." - conceptual fiction review

　


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