Underland: A Deep Time Journey
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National Bestseller • New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year" • NPR "Favorite Books of 2019" • Guardian "100 Best Books of the 21st Century" • Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award
"Mesmerizing…Underland is a portal of light in dark times." —Terry Tempest Williams, New York Times Book Review
In Underland, Robert Macfarlane delivers an epic exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself. Traveling through the dizzying expanse of geologic time—from prehistoric art in Norwegian sea caves, to the blue depths of the Greenland ice cap, to a deep-sunk "hiding place" where nuclear waste will be stored for 100,000 years to come—Underland takes us on an extraordinary journey into our relationship with darkness, burial, and what lies beneath the surface of both place and mind.
Global in its geography and written with great lyricism, Underland speaks powerfully to our present moment. At once ancient and urgent, this is a book that will change the way you see the world.
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Jack_Arctic
Created 13 days ago
“This is my favourite book.
I almost don’t want to write a review about it, I don’t want to think anyone else has read it. It’s my precious. It’s buried treasure.
Books that make you see a totally differently way, this is one of those books that can change your perspective.
It seems so simple, as Macfarlane writes- I’m paraphrasing but “when people look up to the sky they can see millions of light years away, when people look down the sight stops at your feet, at pavement. We rarely realise the immense miles apon miles of earth, rock
and caves underneath us.”
I was surprised with how much a book about caves, catacombs, and underground environments could touch on human emotions and feelings. There are pages in this book where I held my breath due to claustrophobia.
I think I might read this again, now that I have started thinking about it.”Kerry Shepherd
Created 18 days agomadeleine
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“This book was filled with profoundly interesting information about what lies beneath and the impacts we have on the earth and vice versa. However, it was interspersed with I viewed to be ramblings about the act of getting to some part of the world, and brief introductions to people met along the way. This was profoundly uninteresting. I was hoping the book would end with a through line, something to connect all the segments the books was broken into, but this was not the case. I’m glad to have read it but it definitely leans heavy into memoir territory.”zazen
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