Journey to the Center of the Earth
- 'The World Before the Deluge' by Louis Figuier was the scientific source for 'Journey to the Centre of the Earth
- A thrill ride based on the book is open at The Mysterious Island section of Tokyo DisneySea's theme park.
- A water ride at Water World in Federal Heights, Colorado called 'Voyage to the Center of the Earth' is loosely based on the book.
- A PC based adventure video game by frogwares & Viva Media, from 2003.
- Rick Wakeman's album Journey to the Centre of the Earth combines song, narration and instrumental pieces to retell the story and Return to the Centre of the Earth tells the story of a later set of travelers attempting to repeat the original journey.
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Allusions/references from other works
- Doctor Emmett Brown, one of the two main fictional characters of the Back to the Future film series, attributed the origins of his lifelong devotion to science to having read as a child the works of Jules Verne in general, and Journey to the Center of the Earth in particular. Back to the Future III especially pays homage to Journey of the Center of the Earth where Dr. Brown carves his initials in a mineshaft after storing the time machine, just like Arne Saknussemm did to help guide future explorers.
- The first part of the second season of Around the World with Willy Fog by Spanish studio BRB Internacional was "Journey to the Center of the Earth".
- A few video games called Journey to the Center of the Earth were released: in the early 1980s by Ozisoft[1], in 1988 by Chip Software[2] for the Commodore 64, in 1989 by Topo Soft[3] for the ZX Spectrum and in 2003 by Frogwares.
- A concept album called Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Rick Wakeman, was released in 1974.
- Rick Wakeman released a second concept album called Return to the Centre of the Earth in 1999.
- The 1912 novel The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has very similar ideas to Journey's.
- Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote the Pellucidar series using the Journey to the Center of the Earth concept.
- The surname of Kathy Ireland's character in Alien From L.A. (1988), a film about a girl who falls through the earth and discovers a repressive subterranean society, is Saknussemm.
- The 1992 adventure/role-playing game Quest for Glory III by Sierra Entertainment used Arne Saknoosen the Aardvark as a bit character for exploration information, alluding to the explorer Arne Saknussemm.
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Further reading
Debus, Allen (July 2007), “Re-Framing the Science in Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth”, Science Fiction Studies 33 (3): 405-20.
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External links
French Wikisource has original text related to this article:
- Journey to the Centre of the Earth the Oxford University Press translation, with introduction, notes and appendices. Most modern translation available online.
- Journey to the Center of the Earth from JV.Gilead.org.il
- Journey to the Interior of the Earth - in easy to read HTML format.
- Voyage au Centre de la Terre - in easy to read HTML format (French text).
- A Journey to the Interior of the Earth, available at Project Gutenberg. (English)
- A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, available at Project Gutenberg. (English) This is the Hardwigg translation mentioned above, listed for comparison purposes only.
- Voyage au Centre de la Terre, available at Project Gutenberg. (French)
- Literary analysis of the novels of Jules Verne (French text)
- Free audiobook of "Journey to the Center of the Earth" from Librivox
- Journey to the Center of the Earth - Classics Illustrated comic book
- [4] - a photoessay of the ride
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