A beautiful gift for the intrepid explorer in your life by one of the most acclaimed and beloved nature writers working today the internationally bestselling prize-winning author of Landmarks The Lost Words and The Old WaysA SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2019WINNER OF THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2020'You'd be crazy not to read this book' The Sunday TimesA Guardian Best Book of the 21st CenturyIn 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.SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2020'Macfarlane has invented a new kind of book really a new genre entirely' The Irish Times'He is the great nature writer and nature poet of this generation' Wall Street Journal'Macfarlane has shown how utterly beautiful a brilliantly written travel book can still be' Observer on The Old Ways'Irradiated by a profound sense of wonder... Few books give such a sense of enchantment it is a book to give to many and to return to repeatedly' Independent on Landmarks'It sets the imagination tingling...like reading a prose Odyssey sprinkled with imagist poems' The Sunda... See more
A beautiful gift for the intrepid explorer in your life by one of the most acclaimed and beloved nature writers working today the internationally bestselling prize-winning author of Landmarks The Lost Words and The Old WaysA SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2019WINNER OF THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2020'You'd be crazy not to read this book' The Sunday TimesA Guardian Best Book of the 21st CenturyIn 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.SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2020'Macfarlane has invented a new kind of book really a new genre entirely' The Irish Times'He is the great nature writer and nature poet of this generation' Wall Street Journal'Macfarlane has shown how utterly beautiful a brilliantly written travel book can still be' Observer on The Old Ways'Irradiated by a profound sense of wonder... Few books give such a sense of enchantment it is a book to give to many and to return to repeatedly' Independent on Landmarks'It sets the imagination tingling...like reading a prose Odyssey sprinkled with imagist poems' The Sunday Times on The Old Ways Review a brilliant thrilling terrifying work of literature making me want to think more adventurously and live more deeply. •Amy LiptrotAll Macfarlane's books are urgings to take a closer look at the environment we live in and at the natural world especially.They are perception-shifters. And with its darker delving subject matter counter-weighing its lyricismUnderland is a magnificent feat of writing travelling and thinking that feels genuinely frontier-pushing unsettling and exploratory •Evening StandardRobert Macfarlane is a magician with words. InUnderland he shows us how to see in the dark. His writing is like a vortex... Once caughtyou're pulled deeper and deeper with each page Andrea Wulf best-selling author of'The Invention of Nature'Devastating lyrical blazingly vivid... An examination of the darknesses invisible beneath our feet. The book's great power comes from Macfarlane's deliberate turn away from despair and towarda deliberate loving and luminous sense of awe Lauren GroffRobert Macfarlane's writing reminds us of the astonishing variety of things you can see when you go at walking speed and of how strange and rich the world is Philip PullmanThe great nature writer and nature poet of this generation •Wall Street JournalExquisite. [Robert Macfarlane] evokes so vividly places to which I and probably you will never go and at the eeriness of the places themselves and the sense of vast scale they restore to us at a time when it can feel like the world has shrunken around us Rebecca SolnitAn epic descent into a series of underground and underwater landscapes •Financial TimesBeautifully written and wise this haunting book is a treasure... It reads like a seamless dive crawl and trek through deep time in sense-rich landscapes accompanied by fascinating views of the human saga. Its unique spell is irresistible Diane AckermanBeautifully and bravely balanced... This is a radical book in every sense. It goes as deep as it can unafraid of the risk that what it finds will turn everything on its head •The OldieThrilling and soulful raw and erudite. Robert Macfarlane writes of his astonishing subterranean explorations with wondrous indelible power...Underland is a profound reckoning with humankind's self|Robert Macfarlane is the bestselling author of Mountains of the Mind, The Wild Places, The Old Ways, Landmarks, and Underland, and co-creator of The Lost Words and The Lost Spells. Mountains of the Mind won the Guardian First Book Award and the Somerset Maugham Award and The Wild Places won the Boardman-Tasker Award. Both books have been adapted for television by the BBC. The Lost Words won the Books Are My Bag Beautiful Book Award and the Hay Festival Book of the Year. Robert Macfarlane is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and writes on environmentalism, literature and travel for publications including the Guardian, the Sunday Times and The New York Times. He is now working on his third book with long-time collaborator, Jackie Morris: The Book of Birds.|a brilliant, thrilling, terrifying work of literature, making me want to think more adventurously and live more deeply.|All Macfarlane's books are urgings to take a closer look at the environment we live in, and at the natural world especially. They are perception-shifters. And with its darker, delving subject matter counter-weighing its lyricism, Underland is a magnificent feat of writing, travelling and thinking that feels genuinely frontier-pushing, unsettling and exploratory|Robert Macfarlane is a magician with words. In Underland he shows us how to see in the dark. His writing is like a vortex... Once caught, you're pulled deeper and deeper with each page|Devastating, lyrical, blazingly vivid... An examination of the darknesses invisible beneath our feet. The book's great power comes from Macfarlane's deliberate turn away from despair and toward a deliberate, loving, and luminous sense of awe|Robert Macfarlane's writing reminds us of the astonishing variety of things you can see when you go at walking speed, and of how strange and rich the world is|The great nature writer, and nature poet, of this generation|Exquisite. [Robert Macfarlane] evokes so vividly places to which I and probably you will never go, and at the eeriness of the places themselves and the sense of vast scale they restore to us at a time when it can feel like the world has shrunken around us|An epic descent into a series of underground and underwater landscapes|Beautifully written and wise, this haunting book is a treasure... It reads like a seamless dive, crawl, and trek through deep time, in sense-rich landscapes, accompanied by fascinating views of the human saga. Its unique spell is irresistible|Beautifully and bravely balanced... This is a radical book in every sense. It goes as deep as it can, unafraid of the risk that what it finds will turn everything on its head|Thrilling and soulful, raw and erudite. Robert Macfarlane writes of his astonishing subterranean explorations with wondrous, indelible power... Underland is a profound reckoning with humankind's self-imperiled position in nature's eternal order. It is a book of revelations|Robert Macfarlane has long provided us with some of the most distinctive and sensitive thinking about how humans understand and experience the terrestrial world. Underland [is] his most urgent, universal, and expansive book yet|What a total delight. Once again, so many enlivening encounters along paths less frequently trod. Macfarlane remains our perfect guide, reminding us there's so much in the world to wonder at|Eye-opening, lyrical and moving...capturing the poetry beneath the science.|Underland is a startling and memorable book, 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|You'd be crazy not to read this book|Marvellous... Neverending curiosity, generosity of spirit, erudition, bravery and clarity... This is a book well worth reading|Extraordinary... at once learned and readable, thrilling and beautifully written|A beautiful gift for the intrepid explorer in your life by one of the most acclaimed and beloved nature writers working today, the internationally bestselling, prize-winning author of Landmarks, The Lost Words and The Old WaysA SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2019WINNER OF THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2020'You'd be crazy not to read this book' The Sunday TimesA Guardian Best Book of the 21st CenturyIn 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.SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2020'Macfarlane has invented a new kind of book, really a new genre entirely' The Irish Times'He is the great nature writer, and nature poet, of this generation' Wall Street Journal'Macfarlane has shown how utterly beautiful a brilliantly written travel book can still be' Observer on The Old Ways'Irradiated by a profound sense of wonder... Few books give such a sense of enchantment; it is a book to give to many, and to return to repeatedly' Independent on Landmarks'It sets the imagination tingling...like reading a prose Odyssey sprinkled with imagist poems' The Sunday Times on The Old Ways</li></ul>A beautiful gift for the intrepid explorer in your life by one of the most acclaimed and beloved nature writers working today the internationally bestselling prize-winning author of Landmarks The Lost Words and The Old WaysA SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2019WINNER OF THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2020'You'd be crazy not to read this book' The Sunday TimesA Guardian Best Book of the 21st CenturyIn 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.SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2020'Macfarlane has invented a new kind of book really a new genre entirely' The Irish Times'He is the great nature writer and nature poet of this generation' Wall Street Journal'Macfarlane has shown how utterly beautiful a brilliantly written travel book can still be' Observer on The Old Ways'Irradiated by a profound sense of wonder... Few books give such a sense of enchantment it is a book to give to many and to return to repeatedly' Independent on Landmarks'It sets the imagination tingling...like reading a prose Odyssey sprinkled with imagist poems' The Sunday Times on The Old Ways Review a brilliant thrilling terrifying work of literature making me want to think more adventurously and live more deeply. •Amy LiptrotAll Macfarlane's books are urgings to take a closer look at the environment we live in and at the natural world especially.They are perception-shifters. And with its darker delving subject matter counter-weighing its lyricismUnderland is a magnificent feat of writing travelling and thinking that feels genuinely frontier-pushing unsettling and exploratory •Evening StandardRobert Macfarlane is a magician with words. InUnderland he shows us how to see in the dark. His writing is like a vortex... Once caughtyou're pulled deeper and deeper with each page Andrea Wulf best-selling author of'The Invention of Nature'Devastating lyrical blazingly vivid... An examination of the darknesses invisible beneath our feet. The book's great power comes from Macfarlane's deliberate turn away from despair and towarda deliberate loving and luminous sense of awe Lauren GroffRobert Macfarlane's writing reminds us of the astonishing variety of things you can see when you go at walking speed and of how strange and rich the world is Philip PullmanThe great nature writer and nature poet of this generation •Wall Street JournalExquisite. [Robert Macfarlane] evokes so vividly places to which I and probably you will never go and at the eeriness of the places themselves and the sense of vast scale they restore to us at a time when it can feel like the world has shrunken around us Rebecca SolnitAn epic descent into a series of underground and underwater landscapes •Financial TimesBeautifully written and wise this haunting book is a treasure... It reads like a seamless dive crawl and trek through deep time in sense-rich landscapes accompanied by fascinating views of the human saga. Its unique spell is irresistible Diane AckermanBeautifully and bravely balanced... This is a radical book in every sense. It goes as deep as it can unafraid of the risk that what it finds will turn everything on its head •The OldieThrilling and soulful raw and erudite. Robert Macfarlane writes of his astonishing subterranean explorations with wondrous indelible power...Underland is a profound reckoning with humankind's self