The story begins in Hamburg, 1863. The brilliant Professor Lidenbrock, inspired by an ancient, encoded manuscript, decides to take his reluctant nephew Axel on

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Journey to the Center of the Earth is a classic 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne (published in the original French as Voyage au centre de la Terre). Th

The protagonist of the story, Axel, living in an old house in the K�nigstrasse in Hamburg with his uncle Otto Lidenbrock, a prestigious professor of mineralog