Underland - A Deep Time Journey

SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The highly anticipated new book from the internationally bestselling, prize-winning author of Landmarks, The Lost Words and The Old Ways 'You'd be crazy not to read this book' The Sunday Times ' Underland is a magnificent feat of writing, travelling and thinking that feels genuinely frontier pushing, unsettling and exploratory' Evening Standard Discover the hidden worlds beneath our feet... In Underland , Robert Macfarlane takes us on a journey into the worlds beneath our feet. From the ice-blue depths of Greenland's glaciers, to the underground networks by which trees communicate, from Bronze Age burial chambers to the rock art of remote Arctic sea-caves, this is a deep-time voyage into the planet's past and future. Global in its geography, gripping in its voice and haunting in its implications, Underland is a work of huge range and power, and a remarkable new chapter in Macfarlane's long-term exploration of landscape and the human heart. 'Marvellous... Neverending curiosity, generosity of spirit, erudition, bravery and clarity... This is a book well worth reading' The Times 'Extraordinary... at once learned and readable, thrilling and beautifully written' Observer 'Attentive, thoughtful, finely honed... I turned the last page with the unusual conviction of having been in the company of a fine writer who is - who must surely be - a good man' Telegraph 'Poetry, science, a healthy sense of the uncanny and a touch of the shamanic are the hallmarks of his writing... This is a journey that tells the story not just of nature but of human nature. And there is noone I would more gladly follow on it' i 'Startling and memorable, charting invisible and vanishing worlds. Macfarlane has made himself Orpheus, the poet who ventures down to the darkest depths and returns - frighteningly alone-to sing of what he has seen' New Statesman ...

Product details

• Authors: Robert Macfarlane, Macfarlane Robert
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 27.08.2020
• EAN: 9780141030579
• ISBN: 978-0-14-103057-9
• No. of pages: 487
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Nature; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; TRAVEL / Special Interest / Ecotourism, TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, NATURE / Essays, NATURE / Rocks & Minerals, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Environmentalists & Naturalists, TRAVEL / Special Interest / Hikes & Walks, NATURE / Fossils, NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Rivers, NATURE / Earthquakes & Volcanoes, TRAVEL / Polar Regions, Travel writing, Literary essays, National parks and nature reserves: general interest, Conservation of wildlife and habitats