Tales from Sniper's Rest

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; - Conical; having the shape of a cone. Attributes; - Podcast Cover Photo by Photo by Ivan Aleksic on Unsplash - Pr...

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; - Mare Internum; is a large inland sea between South Europe and South-West Asia. - Promontories; a point of high l...

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; - DE PROFUNDIS; Latin meaning; Out of Depths. - Superfluities; an unnecessarily or excessively large amount or num...

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; - Parallelism; refers to using similar words, clauses, phrases, sentence structure, or other grammatical elements t...

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; - Vacuity; lack of thought or intelligence; empty-headedness. - Expedient; (of an action) convenient and practical...

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)...

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...

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; - Indefatigable;(of a person or their efforts) persisting tirelessly. - Imprecations; a spoken curse. - Apropos; ve...

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; - Irascible; having or showing a tendency to be easily angered. - Conjecture; an opinion or conclusion formed on th...

Book Summary; A scientist who builds a time machine, travels to the year 802,701 AD and there encounters humanity's descendants – the childlike Eloi and the monstrous Morlocks. Words I had to look up in order to read this book; - Interminable; endless or apparently endless (often used hyperbolically). - Malign; evil in nature or effect. - Carloviginan; The Carolingian dynasty was a Frankish no...

Book Summary; A scientist who builds a time machine, travels to the year 802,701 AD and there encounters humanity's descendants – the childlike Eloi and the monstrous Morlocks. Words I had to look up in order to read this book; - Parapet; a low protective wall along the edge of a roof, bridge, or balcony. - Interminable; endless or apparently endless (often used hyperbolically). - Malign; evil...

Book Summary; A scientist who builds a time machine, travels to the year 802,701 AD and there encounters humanity's descendants – the childlike Eloi and the monstrous Morlocks. Word I had to look up in order to read this book; - Dresden; a city in Germany. - Phœnician; was an ancient Semitic thalassocratic civilization originating in the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily lo...

Book Summary; A scientist who builds a time machine, travels to the year 802,701 AD and there encounters humanity's descendants – the childlike Eloi and the monstrous Morlocks. Word I had to look up in order to read this book; - Fecundity; the ability to produce many new ideas. - Anachronisms; the action of attributing something to a period to which it does not belong. - Adroitly; in a clever...