Geologist Otto Lidenbrock is perusing an ancient Icelandic manuscript when he discovers a mysterious encrypted note. The message reveals the account of a sixteenth-century explorer who claims to have found a passageway to the center of the earth.

In his quest to penetrate the planet’s primordial secrets impetuous professor, together with his quaking nephewxelnd their devoted guide, Hans, sets off immediately for Iceland. Descending through the belly of a volcano into the bowels of the earthy discover an astonishing subterranean world of prehistoric proportions.

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A classic of science fiction that helped give birth to the genre, this imaginative speculation on the earth’s nature is both a rousing adventure story and an apt portrait of the psychology of the questing scientist.