– Jules Verne er jo berømt for å ha vært svært forut for sin tid med sine historier om undervannsbåter, flyvemaskiner med mer, men i denne boken må man vel si han gikk på en liten smell. Hans fortelling om vitenskapsmannen flankert av den vanlige unge assistenten og litt mer hardbarkede arbeideren tar oss med inn i en innhul Tellus hvor forhistoriske monstre hersker og magnetiske stormer og lyn herjer havene. Masse inkonsistente ting å ergre seg over for naturvitenskapsmenn altså. Poenget her er at denne romanen er en komedie, og er slett ikke ment å være særlig seriøs. Den er faktisk ganske fornøyelig, Vernes humoristiske talenter er nok undervurdert. Men ta ikke mitt ord for det. Les den selv.
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
«Verne's imagination has given us some of the greatest adventure stories of all time»
Daily Mail
Read this perilous and astonishing adventure into the earth's core.
After decoding a scrap of paper in runic script, the intrepid Professor Lidenbrock and his nervous nephew Axel travel across Iceland to find the secret passage to the centre of the earth. Enlisting the silent Hans as a guide, the trio encounter a perilous and astonishing subterranean world of natural hazards, curious sights, prehistoric beasts and sea monsters.
‘Verne's imagination has given us some of the greatest adventure stories of all time’ Daily Mail
Read this perilous and astonishing adventure into the earth's core.
After decoding a scrap of paper in runic script, the intrepid Professor Lidenbrock and his nervous nephew Axel travel across Iceland to find the secret passage to the centre of the earth. Enlisting the silent Hans as a guide, the trio encounter a perilous and astonishing subterranean world of natural hazards, curious sights, prehistoric beasts and sea monsters.
‘Verne's imagination has given us some of the greatest adventure stories of all time’ Daily Mail
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Vintage Classics
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 192
- ISBN
- 9780099528494
- Utgivelsesår
- 2011
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
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«Verne's imagination has given us some of the greatest adventure stories of all time»
Daily Mail
«Journey to the Centre of the Earth is one of the most famous novels ever written. Verne has left us an extraordinary book, which has withstood the test of time better than some of the science described within it. It has brought delight to generations of readers, and will for many more. There is nothing so rare as the chance to take an impossible journey, and to believe it so powerfully that we wonder if we will make it out alive. That's magic. And that's Verne's gift.»
Michael Crichton, Daily Telegraph
«The reason Verne is still read by millions today is simply that he was one of the best storytellers who ever lived»
Arthur C. Clarke
«Fantasised a parallel world to ours under the earth's crust. This hypothesis was both popular and subscribed to, even by reputable scientists, in the 19th century. Verne's tale was flagrantly ripped off; (by Edgar Rice Burroughs, among others, with his "Pellucidar" series) but remains the best of its (scientifically) preposterous kind.»
John Sutherland, Guardian