domingo, 6 de junio de 2010

Journey to the Center of the Earth- Jules Verne

Original title: Voyage au centre de la terre.

For centuries, a scroll written with Runic hieroglyph, has remained hidden inside a book that aide in the hands of Professor Otto Lidenbrock, after a few days trying to translate their content encryption chance and Runic writing which gets his nephew Axel, from this point the whole story unfolds.

It is aimed at Reykjavik, Iceland. They speak with the governor of that city which provides them with a guide who will lead them to the volcano, indicated on parchment, Arne Sakmussemm, when they reach the mouth of the volcano waiting for climate will be favorable, and glide on a large crater depth when they reach the end, you will find a gallery with two apparently identical tunnels of Professor Otto Lidenbrock sings. On the right, des for several day I walked arrive combines gallery where there is no escape and without them that no water, they decide to return to the previous gallery when they Axel, fainted from lack of water Professor Otto Lidenbrock, it gives you a little of what he had left in his pumpkin.
After a conversation with Axel, that it agrees that if they find water in one day return and are launched by the tunnel to the left, after a long journey is Hans know the guide, which is set to be a hole in the wall where the rumor of a tributary of water can be heard once again with water provided decide to continue your journey.

In this Axel you are lost in a maze, helped by the indications of his uncle, gets out and reach the sea where fish carcasses.

Here they are set to build a raft to cross over this sea or lake, but the journey is much longer than they expected, in this part they hit a ichthyosaur and plesiosaur that are fighting and do not realize his presence.

During the trip there is a storm, threatening the lives of all, thanks to Hans survive, only to realize that the storm has rolled back instead of forward, which is not like anything the group.

While investigating the shore where there is a forest and animals of the Tertiary, found with a knife that belonged to Arne Saknussemm, which had been there 300 years before and found a rock that indicates the way forward, which is obstructed by a large rock, is if they decide to use dynamite to Brice way, but the explosion of dynamite causes a terrible wave that leads through different corridors and galleries to one that is vertical and where the water begins to rise rapidly. But it turns out one of the openings of the volcano Vesuvius in Italy.

As sad thing is that they never reach the center of the earth due to the accident with gunpowder, they were only some 1,500 miles from their goal.