aug 30, 1864 - Voyage au centre de la terre (Journey to the Center of the Earth) - Jules Verne

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lost world, hollow earth(?) - Although it is often suggested that Jules Verne used the idea of a partially hollow Earth in his 1864 novel, A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, his characters actually descend only 87 miles[1] beneath the surface where they find an underground sea occupying a cavern roughly the size of Europe. There is no indication in the novel that Verne intended to suggest that the Earth was in any way hollow, partially or otherwise.

some critics do not view this novel as a HE work! This is because it doesn't take place at the titular center of the earth; instead, it is set in an extremely deep and extensive cave system.

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