He ends up falling down the hole, and after a while he finds himself floating in free space.Īfter a few days of orbiting the planet which revolves around the inner sun, he is attacked by a gryphon, and he falls down on the planet, which is named Nazar.
His curiosity drives him to investigate a strange cave in a mountainside above the town, which sends out regular gusts of warm air. The story is set, according to the book, in the Norwegian harbor town of Bergen in 1664, after Klim returns from Copenhagen, where he has studied philosophy and theology at the University of Copenhagen and graduated magna cum laude. The novel starts with a foreword that assures that everything in the story is a real account of the title character's exploits in the Underworld. His only novel, it describes a utopian society from an outsider's point of view, and often pokes fun at diverse cultural and social topics such as morality, science, sexual equality, religion, governments, and philosophy. Niels Klim's Underground Travels, originally published in Latin as Nicolai Klimii Iter Subterraneum (1741), is a satirical science-fiction/ fantasy novel written by the Norwegian- Danish author Ludvig Holberg. Illustration engraved by Johan Frederik Clemens after drawing by Nicolai Abraham Abildgaard, from the 1789 deluxe edition translated into Danish by poet Jens Baggesen. "Sentencing the deceased citizen of Potu."
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