A cryptic manuscript. An obsessive professor. A descent through volcanic rock into a prehistoric underworld.

Verne’s 1864 adventure novel still reads like speculative fiction rather than historical curiosity. It's science as obsession, exploration as ego, and beneath the boys’-own surface, it’s a story about what happens everything you knew pushes past all edges.

This Roads Classics edition strips it back to clean typography and lets the strangeness breathe.