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'''''Journey to the Center of the Earth''''' ({{lang-fr|link=no|Voyage au centre de la Terre}}), also translated with the variant titles '''''A Journey to the Centre of the Earth''''' and '''''A Journey into the Interior of the Earth''''', is a classic science fiction novel by [[Jules Verne]]. It was first published in French in 1864, then reissued in 1867 in a revised and expanded edition. Professor Otto Lidenbrock is the tale's central figure, an 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 [[abseiling|rappel]] into Iceland's celebrated inactive volcano [[Snæfellsjökull]], then contend with many dangers, including cave-ins, subpolar tornadoes, an underground ocean, and living prehistoric creatures from the [[Mesozoic]] and [[Cenozoic]] eras (the 1867 revised edition inserted additional prehistoric material in Chaps. 37–39). Eventually the three explorers are spewed back to the surface by an active volcano, [[Stromboli]], located in [[southern Italy]].

The category of [[subterranean fiction]] existed well before Verne. However his novel's distinction lay in its well-researched Victorian science and its inventive contribution to the science-fiction subgenre of [[time travel]]—Verne's innovation was the concept of a prehistoric realm still existing in the present-day world. ''Journey'' inspired many later authors, including [[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]] in his novel ''[[The Lost World (Conan Doyle novel)|The Lost World]]'', [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]] in his ''[[Pellucidar]]'' series,{{citation needed|date=September 2022}} and [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] in [[The Hobbit]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Hooker |first=Mark |title=The Tolkienaeum: Essays on J.R.R. Tolkien and his Legendarium |publisher=Llyfrawr |pages=1–12 |isbn=978-1-49975-910-5 |year=2014 }}</ref>