Publisher's Synopsis
An abandoned mine with mysterious unexplainable happenings is the setting for this adventure by Jules Verne. Jules Verne was born in 1828 in France. His dream was to write a new kind of novel, which combined scientific fact with fiction. Verne eventually wrote 40 novels in his Voyages extraordinaires series. "What one man can imagine, another will someday be able to achieve." Is a quote from an article in the Encyclopedia Britannica that sums up Verne so well. The Underground city is set in the mining town of Aberfoyle. James Starr is asked by a friend to come to the mine. When he arrives he finds the mine overman and his family living deep inside the mine. Simon Ford has found a rich vein of coal but the men must deal with mysterious unexplainable events at the mine while mining the ore.
