Journey to the Center of the Earth.(Jules Verne's book)(Review)

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From: Children's Digest
Date: 19991201
Author:Gave, Marc; Harris, Nicholas

Jules Verne Revised

Did you ever dig a hole in your backyard? How deep did you get? Three feet? Five feet? Were you trying to dig your way to the center of the Earth? Well, it's a good thing you did not make it. The inner core of the Earth is 13,500 [degrees] F!

Journey to the Center of the Earth takes you to that dangerous destination, but in a safe, scientific, imaginative way. You travel down through the different layers of the Earth and learn as you go.

The journey starts in the Earth's atmosphere but soon gets down to the soil. And a few yards beneath, you come ...

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