Journey to the Interior of the Earth E-Book

Jules Verne.

• Herausgeber: Jules Verne
• Kategorie: Abenteuer, Thriller, Horror
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

A classic science fiction novel by Jules Verne (published in the original French as Voyage au centre de la Terre in 1864). The story involves a professor who leads his nephew and hired guide down a volcano in Iceland to the "center of the Earth". They encounter many adventures, including prehistoric animals and natural hazards, eventually coming to the surface again in southern Italy.

Leseprobe

Journey to the Interior of the Earth

by

Jules Verne

To the best of our knowledge, the text of this

work is in the “Public Domain”.

HOWEVER, copyright law varies in other countries, and the work may still be under

copyright in the country from which you are accessing this website. It is your

responsibility to check the applicable copyright laws in your country before

downloading this work.

Preface

The Professor and His Family

A Mystery to Be Solved at Any Price

The Runic Writing Exercises the Professor

The Enemy to Be Starved into Submission

Famine, then Victory, Followed by Dismay

Exciting Discussions About an Unparalleled Enterprise

A Woman’s Courage

Serious Preparations for Vertical Descent

Iceland! But what Next?

Interesting Conversations with Icelandic Savants

A Guide Found to the Centre of the Earth

A Barren Land

Hospitality Under the Arctic Circle

But Arctics Can Be Inhospitable, Too

Snæfell at Last

Boldly Down the Crater

Vertical Descent

The Wonders of Terrestrial Depths

Geological Studies in Situ

The First Signs of Distress

Compassion Fuses the Professor’s Heart

Total Failure of Water

Water Discovered

Well Said, Old Mole! Canst Thou Work I’ the Ground So Fast?

De Profundis

The Worst Peril of All

Lost in the Bowels of the Earth

The Rescue in the Whispering Gallery

Thalatta! Thalatta!

A New Mare Internum

Preparations for a Voyage of Discovery

Wonders of the Deep

A Battle of Monsters

The Great Geyser

An Electric Storm

Calm Philosophic Discussions

The Liedenbrock Museum of Geology

The Professor in His Chair Again

Forest Scenery Illuminated by Electricity

Preparations for Blasting a Passage to the Centre of the Earth

The Great Explosion and the Rush Down Below

Headlong Speed Upward Through the Horrors of Darkness

Shot Out of a Volcano at Last!

Sunny Lands in the Blue Mediterranean

All’s Well that Ends Well

Preface

THE “Voyages Extraordinaires” of M. Jules Verne deserve to be made widely known in English-speaking countries by means of carefully prepared translations. Witty and ingenious adaptations of the researches and discoveries of modern science to the popular taste, which demands that these should be presented to ordinary readers in the lighter form of cleverly mingled truth and fiction, these books will assuredly be read with profit and delight, especially by English youth. Certainly no writer before M. Jules Verne has been so happy in weaving together in judicious combination severe scientific truth with a charming exercise of playful imagination.

Iceland, the starting point of the marvellous underground journey imagined in this volume, is invested at the present time with. a painful interest in consequence of the disastrous eruptions last Easter Day, which covered with lava and ashes the poor and scanty vegetation upon which four thousand persons were partly dependent for the means of subsistence. For a long time to come the natives of that interesting island, who cleave to their desert home with all that amor patriae which is so much more easily understood than explained, will look, and look not in vain, for the help of those on whom fall the smiles of a kindlier sun in regions not torn by earthquakes nor blasted and ravaged by volcanic fires. Will the readers of this little book, who, are gifted with the means of indulging in the luxury of extended beneficence, remember the distress of their brethren in the far north, whom distance has not barred from the claim of being counted our “neighbours”? And whatever their humane feelings may prompt them to bestow will be gladly added to the Mansion-House Iceland Relief Fund.

In his desire to ascertain how far the picture of Iceland, drawn in the work of Jules Verne is a correct one, the translator hopes in the course of a mail or two to receive a communication from a leading man of science in the island, which may furnish matter for additional information in a future edition.