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Podcast: Tales from Sniper's Rest
Episode: A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Part 11
Description: Book Summary; The story of Professor Lidenbrock, his nephew, and a hired guide who, following the instructions of a medieval alchemist claiming to have found a passage to the center of the earth, travel deep into an Icelandic volcano.
Words I had to look up in order to read this book;
- Contrivance; the use of skill to create or bring about something, especially with a consequent effect of artificiality.
- Prognostications; the action of prophesying future events.
- Paroxysm; a sudden attack or outburst of a particular...