“Journey to the Centre of the Earth” by Jules Verne
Foreign Reader
Yes, I know, this book was originially written in French, but I don’t read in French. It so happens that when I was a kid and read Jules Verne’s other books in Russian, this particular book never came my way either. But now as I was sorting that huge pile of book I’d received as a gift from a friend (it filled a huge suitcase), the English translation of “Journey to the Centre of the Earth” attracted my attention, and I read it. The translation is done by Robert Baldick, and it’s quite good.
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