Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
Et quacumque viam dederit fortuna sequamur
– And whatever route fortune gives, we shall follow
This IS your great-great-great-grandfather’s adventure story, so reader beware. There’s a lot of walking, a lot of exposition, and quite frankly, not a lot of action. But keep in mind… this is an original. Our modern day sensibilities expect high action out of our adventure stories: monsters, critters, thrill-a-minute. But in a much different time when society was in a much different state,
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