What is Journey to the Center of the Earth?
{{Infobox book | name = Journey to the Center of the Earth | title_orig = Voyage au centre de la Terre | translator = | image = A Journey to the Centre of the Earth-1874.jpg | caption = Front cover of an 1874 English translation | author = [[Jules Verne]] | illustrator = [[Édouard Riou]] | cover_artist = Édouard Riou | country = France | language = French | series = ''[[Voyages Extraordinaires|The Extraordinary Voyages]]'' #3 | genre = Science fiction, [[adventure novel]] | publisher = [[Pierre-Jules Hetzel]] | release_date = 25 November 1864; rev. 1867 | english_pub_date = 1871 | preceded_by = [[The Adventures of Captain Hatteras]] | followed_by = [[From the Earth to the Moon]] }} '''''Journey to the Center of the Earth''''' ({{lang-fr|link=no|Voyage au centre de la Terre}}), also known as '''''A Journey to the Centre of the Earth''''' and '''''A Journey into the Interior of the Earth''''', is a [[science fiction]] book by [[Jules Verne]]. It was first published in [[French language|French]] in 1864, then reissued in 1867 in an expanded version. The book is about Professor Otto Lidenbrock, an [[wikt:eccentric|eccentric]] German scientist who believes there are [[Lava tube|volcanic tubes]] that reach to the very center of the earth. He, his nephew Axel, and their Icelandic guide Hans [[wikt:rappel|rappel]] into an inactive volcano in Iceland. They then deal with many dangers, including cave-ins, tornadoes, an underground ocean, and living [[Prehistory|prehistoric]] creatures from the [[Mesozoic]] and [[Cenozoic]] eras. The three explorers are eventually sent back to the surface by an active volcano located in southern [[Italy]]. [[Subterranean fiction]] existed before Verne. However his book was different because of its well-researched Victorian science and its [[innovation]] to the science fiction subgenre of [[time travel]]. Verne's innovation was the concept of a prehistoric area still existing in the present-day world. The book was made into [[Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959 movie)|a movie]] in 195