Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2020
Shortlisted for theWaterstones Book of the Year 2019
From the high peaks of Mountains of the Mind to the lost paths of The Old Ways and the vanishing lexicon of The Lost Words,Robert Macfarlane has traced the way our landscape is fused with language,storytelling and imagination.
Ten years in the making,Underland is his enthralling record of journeys deep into the worlds beneath our feet. From the burial grounds of the Mendip Hills to the hidden catacombs of Paris,and further,to the deep blue,ancient ice of Greenland,Macfarlane explores - through myth,memory and experience - our most feared and venerated spaces of loss,discovery and deep time.
Blending personal memoir,travelogue and nature writing,infused with a powerful ability to read the essential messages about our changing planet and our place within it embedded in the very ground we walk upon,Underland is an astonishing and unforgettable book. Written with lyricism,power and prescience,it brings together the ancient and the urgent in a revelatory examination of an unseen and essential netherworld.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780141030579Number of pages: 496Weight: 403 gDimensions: 197 x 129 x 34 mm
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'Every book by Macfarlane since his first has felt less like a new start than the natural extension of a growing landscape. With Underland,it expands downwards to take in barrows,caves,tunnels and catacombs. The experience is,as always,exhilarating and a little terrifying.'- The Daily Telegraph
'There are some simply wonderful chapters here,combining natural and human history,a love of places and names...'- The Times
'Underland is an epic and occasionally portentous descent into a series of underground and underwater landscapes'- The Financial Times
'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'- The Wall Street Journal
'Macfarlane has shown how utterly beautiful a brilliantly written travel book can still be'- The 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 onLandmarks'It sets the imagination tingling...like reading a prose Odyssey sprinkled with imagist poems'- The Sunday Times on The Old Ways
Robert Macfarlane
A British author and academic,Robert Macfarlane is an author of prize-winning books on the themes of memory,landscape,nature,environmentalism and travel and regularly writes for publications including the Guardian and the Times. His first book,Mountains of the Mind won the Guardian First Book Award and the Somerset Maugham Award. His other works include,The Old Ways,Landmarks and The Lost Words,a children's book of nature spells created in partnership with artist Jackie Morris.
Robert Macfarlane is Reader in Literature and the Geohumanities in the Faculty of English at Emmanuel College,Cambridge. His forthcoming book about subterranean spaces and deep time,Underland,will be published in 2019.
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