Spock from Star Trek, and an Introduction by Grylis, author of Born Survivor. I have the “Children’s Classic” version to one day read to my kids, so hopefully sometime in the next few years I’ll enjoy it again.About the Book One of the all-time greatest works of the science fiction genre, this edition of Vernes classic tale includes an Afterword written by Nimoy, known to generations as Mr. How were they able to make such good time while lugging so much equipment up mountains and across stormy seas on nothing but a hand-made raft? How were they able to survive such a violent, fiery blast from a volcano? I know, I’m thinking too deeply about it (plus, I’m ignoring the mammoths and giants who live at the water’s edge!).Īll in all, this was a great book to read again. The list of impossibilities are endless, but to be an unimaginative jerk, I’ll just stick with two of the more obvious. While this book is full adventure and set in our world and in normal time, it would be hard to separate it from any other Jules Verne classic, for it’s also filled with implausible science-fiction like any of his other works. Rider Haggard, Lionel Davidson, and Clive Cussler. I’ve since followed those up with the likes of H. Sheer terror, the thought of being along and forgotten! Jules Verne at least gripped my emotions this way and in those scenes, and I can thank my teacher for introducing me early to adventure stories that invite me along for the ride. It was terrifying! It gripped me, for it reminded me of the time-at age 13-when I got lost in the snowy woods of central Wisconsin whilst deer hunting.
Specifically, I recalled feeling the suffocation, fear, and dread of nervous Axel as I walked together with him, lost and without light in the darkest depths of the earth. With a recent return to the book, however, I recalled how enthralled I had been in the goings on of Professor Lidenbrock, his nephew Axel, and their Icelandic guide, Hans. Although this was among the very first “adult” novels I had ever read, this classic story was sadly not one that ever got me hooked on reading. I first read this adventure tale, Journey to the Center of the Earth, in a literature class in high school at the behest of our literature teacher who was also our science (and math) teacher.
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