A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Part 4

11/09/2023 48 min Temporada 2 Episodio 4

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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;
- Sagacious; having or showing keen mental discernment and good judgement; wise or shrewd.
- Efface; erase (a mark) from a surface.
- Taciturnity; the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary.
- Rector; (in the Church of England) the incumbent of a parish where all tithes formerly passed to the incumbent.
- Tithe; one tenth of annual produce or earnings, formerly taken as a tax for the support of the Church and clergy.
- Scoriae; basaltic lava ejected as fragments from a volcano, typically with a frothy texture.
- Turbary; the legal right to cut turf or peat for fuel on common ground or on another person's ground.

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