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| title = Journey to the Center of the Earth
| original title = Voyage au centre de la Terre
| image = lidenbrock_sea_9403.jpg
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| author = Jules Verne
| central theme =
| elevator pitch = An expedition to the center of the earth discovers a prehistoric world underground.
| genre = Subterranean fiction
| publication date = November 25, 1864
| source page exists = yes
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First, an 1864 [[Jules Verne]] [[Science Fiction]] novel (the French original being titled ''Voyage au centre de la Terre'') about a German professor and his nephew who, inspired by a message left by a 16th-century alchemist named Arne Saknussemm, travel down volcanic tubes in an extinct Icelandic volcano. They then discover prehistoric animals and all sorts of danger as they go down farther. Verne was inspired by Charles Lyell's ''Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man'' to write it, although the science has not aged very well compared to his other books (at least, science as Professor Lidenbrock describes it).
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