A Journey to the Center of the…

A Journey to the Center of the Earth (French: Voyage au centre de la Terre, also translated under the titles Journey to the Center of the Earth and A Journey to the Interior of the Earth), an 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne, involves a German professor (Otto Lidenbrock in the original French, Professor Von Hardwigg in the most common English translation, who believes there are volcanic tubes going toward the center of the Earth.

He, his nephew Axel (Harry), and their guide Hans descend into an extinct Icelandic volcano, encountering many adventures, including prehistoric animals and natural hazards, before eventually coming to the surface again in southern Italy.

From a scientific point of view, this story will not age quite as well as other Verne stories, since most of his ideas about what the interior of the Earth contains will later be disproved.