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>Symzonia; voyage of Discovery (1820)
Basically 'a journey to the center of the earth', but the original but pre-Vernes.
Captain Seaborn sets out to prove the 'Hollow Earth theory' by Captain J. Symmes.
Considered the first American Science-fiction book
>A Journey to the center of the earth
needs no explanation
>The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Edgar Allan Poe
Pym sets aboard a whaler, where adventure and misfortune strike. Mutiny, Cannibalism, Hostile Blacks, and also Hollow Earth
>At the Mountains of Madness, Lovecraft
A 1930s expedition to Antarctica sets sail to find an Ancient Race far older than humanity.
Based upon Arthur Pym
>A descent into Maelström, Edgar Allen Poe
An old man in Norway recalls his encounter with a whirlpool
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>The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
A poem in which a Mariner recalls His Journey in the Antarctic
>1. The Call of the Wild and 2. White Fang
, Jack London
2 novels set in Yukon, Canada during the Klondike Gold Rush.
Both take the primary POV of the dogs as they increasingly become more wild to adopt to their new lives up North
>An African in Greenland (nonfiction)
A Negro from the Togo moves to Greenland, where he encounters a vastly different world of Danes, Germans and Inuit
>The Worst Journey in the World
Non-fiction book about an expedition to the South Pole
>Ice Station Zebra 1963
Arctic Thriller set during the Cold War, a more modern book than the rest.
>The Greenlanders
Centered around the daily affairs of the Norsemen during the Middle Ages and their struggle against the Greenlandic climate and Inuit.
>Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit
Novel about Sir John Franklin and his explorations
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The Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition of 1872–74 led by Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht
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>>24117732
>>A Journey to the center of the earth
>needs no explanation
Why? I don't remember any part in which the protagonists go to antarctica. In 20k they do but not in journey to the center of the earth.



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