Journey to the Center of the Earth
A Hamburg mineralogy professor buys a runic Icelandic manuscript and finds a coded slip inside it claiming a route to the earth's centre through a volcanic crater. He drags his reluctant nephew and an Icelandic guide down the shaft, and the descent opens onto a lit cavern with a sea in it, forests of giant mushrooms and animals the fossil record says are finished. The model for every hollow-earth story after it.
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Closest analogues
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- 46% · 10 shared