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After one of his lectures, Theodore is approached by Alice Hastings who finances the Lyttons' journey into the center of Earth on a quest to find her lost husband Casper Hastings. Casper had 7 years prior gone to seek a fortune of gold rumored to exist far below the Earth's surface. The Lyttons meet McNiff, a gun for hire, in New Zealand.
Journey to the Center of the Earth is a 1993 TV film first aired on NBC. Starring Oscar-winning actor F. Murray Abraham and sitcom actress Farrah Forke, the film doubled as a pilot for a possible TV series. [1] The film is based on the 1864 novel of the same name by Jules Verne, about scientists trapped in a subterranean world. [2] [3]
Journey to the Center of the Earth (French: Voyage au centre de la Terre), also translated with the variant titles A Journey to the Centre of the Earth and A Journey into the Interior of the Earth, is a classic science fiction novel by Jules Verne. It was first published in French in 1864, then reissued in 1867 in a revised and expanded edition.
Allegorical portrait of a knight reaching his princess at the end of his quest.In the background, he kills a dragon. Workshop of Lucas Cranach the Elder, c. 1515–20. J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973) was an English Roman Catholic writer, poet, philologist, and academic, best known as the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, both set in Middle-earth.
Inherit the Earth: Quest for the Orb is an adventure game developed by The Dreamers Guild and published by New World Computing in 1994. The point and click adventure game features a world of talking humanoid animals , with the gameplay focusing on a fox on a quest to find a stolen orb, a relic of the mythical humans.
In the Doctor Who episode, "The Runaway Bride", a Racnoss warship is found at the center of the planet. In the 1966 Doctor Who spin-off film "Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.", the Daleks have turned Bedfordshire into a giant mine complex, digging a shaft, accessing the Earth's core. They intend to explode a nuclear bomb to destroy the core and ...
This "Hollow Earth"-type novel was modeled after the 1741 satirical fantasy Niels Klim's Underground Travels by the Norwegian-Danish author Ludvig Holberg. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Other suggested influences are Gulliver's Travels and the underground cities in the 1810 novel Ini: Ein Roman aus dem ein und zwanzigsten Jahrhundert ["Ini: A Novel from the ...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth received mostly positive reviews from the magazines of the day.C&VG [1] gave it 8/10 for graphics, 8/10 for sound, 7/10 for value, and 8/10 for playability.