20,000 Thousand Leagues Under The Sea + Journey To The Center of the Earth

20,000 Thousand Leagues Under The Sea
Jules Verne was remarkably successful in foretelling the wonders science held for the future. This, his most famous novel, earned him the title of "Father of Science Fiction.

"The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and puzzling phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten...For some time past, vessels had been met by 'an enormous thing, ' a long object, spindle-shaped, occasionally phosphorescent, and infinitely larger and more rapid in its movements than a whale."

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3185559-20-000-thousand-leagues-under-the-sea?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_37

Journey To The Center of the Earth

An adventurous geology professor chances upon a manuscript in which a 16th-century explorer claims to have found a route to the earth's core. Professor Lidenbrock can't resist the opportunity to investigate, and with his nephew Axel, he sets off across Iceland in the company of Hans Bjelke, a native guide.

The expedition descends into an extinct volcano toward a sunless sea, where they encounter a subterranean world of luminous rocks, antediluvian forests, and fantastic marine life — a living past that holds the secrets to the origins of human existence.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32829.Journey_to_the_Center_of_the_Earth?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_34