A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Part 3

08/09/2023 50 min Temporada 2 Episodio 3

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Episode Synopsis

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.

Word I had to look up in order to read this book;
- Vouchsafed; give or grant (something) to (someone) in a gracious or condescending manner.
- Lumbago; is typically described as mild to severe lower back pain.
- Index Expurgatorius (Latin); a list of books that the Roman Catholic Church forbade its members to read unless certain passages condemned as dangerous to faith or morals were deleted or changed.
- Eider-down; An eiderdown is a bed covering, placed on top of sheets and blankets, that is filled with small soft feathers or warm material.
- Ingenuous; (of a person or action) innocent and unsuspecting.
- Indolence; avoidance of activity or exertion; laziness.
- Parsimony; extreme unwillingness to spend money or use resources.
- Phlegmatic; (of a person) having an unemotional and stolidly calm disposition.

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