An ancient parchment bearing a mysterious cryptogram maps the most hazardous journey of Professor Lidenbrock's career.

With his nephew and a guide the Professor travels to Iceland.Their journey to the centre of the earth begins on the summit of a volcano and takes them down through secret passages, across a desolate underground sea populated by prehistoric marine monsters, on what may be a voyage of no return.

Few writers have conveyed the sheer excitement of exploration and discovery so grippingly as Jules Veme. The great science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke wrote: 'The reason Veme is still read by millions today is simply that he was one of the best storytellers who have ever lived; and Journey to the Centre of the Earth is a particularly flawless specimen of his art.'

My Uncle Lidenbrock

The Strange Parchment

My Uncleis Baffled

I Find the Key

Hunger Defeats Me

I Argue in Vain

Getting Ready

The First Stage

We Reach Iceland

Our First Dinner in Iceland

Our Guide Hans

Slow Progress

Icelandic Hospitality 80

A Final Argument 86

The Summit of Sneffels

Inside the Crater 98

Our Real Journey Begins

Ten Thousand Feet Below Sea-Level

Upwards Again

A Dead End

The New Columbus

I Collapse

We Find Water

Under the Sea

A Day of Rest

Alone

Lost and Panic-Stricken

I Hear Voices

Saved

An Underground Sea

The Raft

We Set Sail

A Battle of Monsters

The Great Geyser

The Storm

An Unpleasant Shock

A Human Skull

The Professor Gives a Lecture

Man Alive？

We Meet an Obstacle

Down the Tunnel

Going Up

Shot Out of a Volcano

Back to the Surface

Home Again