The Journey of Niels Klim to the World Underground
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Book Overview
Fantastic adventures at the center of the earth await a penniless Norwegian student after he plunges into a bottomless hole in a cave. Niels Klim discovers worlds within our own - exotic civilizations and fabulous creatures scattered across the underside of the earth's crust.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0803273487
ISBN13:9780803273481
Release Date:January 2004
Publisher:Bison Books
Length:234 Pages
Weight:0.75 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.3" x 7.9"
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Fantastical literature
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
This is the first "journey into the hollow Earth" novel. Written shortly after Gulliver's Travels, by a Danish author. Much less satirical than Gulliver, this is still a mix of philosophical comment and adventure. Though adventures there are aplenty with warring birds, talking instruments, intelligent trees, and a sort of mini-solar system in the very center of the Earth. Bison Frontiers of Imagination have been diligently reprinting the often lost or ignored "science fiction" of the past. Here we have the first journey into the hollow Earth written by a contemporary of Jonathan Swift, but a largely forgotten book. Pick it up, no one you know has read it...
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