‘Journey to the Centre of the Earth’ is a science fiction adventure novel by the French author Jules Verne. It was first published in France in 1864. The first of its several English translations was published in 1871.
The main characters in the novel are Axel, a young German, and his uncle Professor Lidenbrock, a professor of geology at Hamburg University who also prides himself on his ability to speak, and read several languages. The two men discover a piece of parchment which carries a coded message. The message tells them that it is possible to descend to the centre of the Earth, from one of the three craters on an Icelandic volcano. Axel and the professor travel to Iceland. They hire a local guide, Hans Bjelke, who leads them to the volcano and then accompanies them on their journey deep underground.
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