Journey To The Center of The Earth by Jules Verne

Journey To The Center of The Earth

This book starts when Professor Otto Lidenbrock finds a mysterious piece of paper in an old book at the market. The piece of paper is coded so he and his nephew Axel, the narrator of the story, try to decipher the code. Finally while the professor is away Axel deciphers the code. He finds out that the note tells how to find the center of the earth. So they travel across the ocean to Iceland where they meet their faithful Icelandic guide, Hans. From there they travel to Mt.Sneffles, an extinct volcano. From there they travel up the mountain to a certain crater that has three tunnels in it. Then they have to wait a couple of days for a sign to appear and show them which tunnel to go through. Finally the sign appears and they start down the tunnel. After weeks of traveling and many dangerous situations they reach a huge underground cavern with a huge inland sea and mushroom forests. Then they decide to try to travel across the inland sea. They are a couple days out at sea when terrific battle takes place between to prehistoric sea monsters!  After hours of fighting finally one of them kills the other and they manage to escape. Then a couple days after the terrible battle they are shipwrecked on a strange shore. So after they rest awhile the professor and his nephew go exploring and find the entrance to the center of the earth. But unfortunately there is a huge rock blocking their way so they have to blow it up. After they blow the rock up things start happening very fast. Finally after a series of events they get blown out a volcano on an island in the Mediterranean. Then they head home and tell the world of their discoveries and become famous.