He, his nephew Harry, and their guide Hans encounter many adventures on the journey, including prehistoric animals and natural hazards. The story involves a German Professor Von Hardwigg, who believes there are volcanic tubes going toward the center of the Earth. One of his most famous works is A Journey to the Center of the Earth, a classic adventure novel published in 1864. Verne wrote about air travel and space travel 50 years before either was possible. It didn’t hurt that one of his teachers may have been inventor Brutus de Villeroi, who created the first submarine for the U.S. Although he studied to be a lawyer and held stock trading jobs, he quickly learned that he had a knack for weaving adventurous stories of travels and expeditions. Jules Verne (1828-1905) is one of the most recognizable names in Western literature, coming to be known as one of the Fathers of Science-Fiction.
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