In Underland, Robert Macfarlane delivers an epic exploration of the Earths underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself. Traveling through the dizzying expanse of geologic timefrom 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 comeUnderland 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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"Profound in every sense of the word." -- Richard Powers, Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Overstory "An excellent bookfearless and subtle, empathic and strange." -- Dwight Garner - New York Times "Reading Macfarlane connects us to dazzling new worlds. Its a connection that brings, more than anything else, joy." -- Barbara J. King - NPR "RemarkableUnderland may be [ Macfarlanes] masterpiece." -- Colin Thubron - New York Review of Books "One of the most ambitious works of narrative non-fiction of our age." -- William Dalrymple - Guardian "[ Robert Macfarlanes] writing is luminous, intense.[ B]rilliant notes from the underground." -- Huw Lewis-Jones - Nature "[ Macfarlane] seems to metabolize landscape into lyrics as he walks." -- Rachel Riederer - Outside "Through this series of haunting descents, Macfarlane plumbs the strange and alarming ways weve changed the world and resurfaces with revelations about how to orient us to the future, weaving landscape and language together." -- Kate Yoder - Grist "The most impressive exercise of imagination and scholarship Ive come across lately.A reader never will forget this journey through geologic time." -- Tony Norman - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "With Underland Macfarlane gives us a work of nature writing for the ageand for the ages. Its eloquent but urgent prose reveals our complex relationship with nature while pushing us to think more deeply about earths sublime underneath." -- Amy Brady - Gizmodo
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2 Burial (Mendips, Somerset) |
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3 Dark Matter (Boulby, Yorkshire) |
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4 The Understorey (Epping Forest, London) |
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5 Invisible Cities (Paris) |
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6 Starless Rivers (The Carso, Italy) |
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7 Hollow Land (Slovenian Highlands) |
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PART III HAUNTING (THE NORTH) |
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8 Red Dancers (Lofoten, Norway) |
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9 The Edge (Andøya, Norway) |
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10 The Blue of Time (Kulusuk, Greenland) |
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11 Meltwater (Knud Rasmussen Glacier, Greenland) |
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12 The Hiding Place (Olkiluoto, Finland) |
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| Acknowledgements |
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Robert Macfarlane is internationally renowned for his writing on nature, people, and place. His best-selling books include Underland, Landmarks, The Old Ways, The Wild Places, and Mountains of the Mind; they have been translated into more than thirty languages, won many prizes around the world and been widely adapted for film, music, theatre, radio, and dance. He has also written operas, plays, and films including River and Mountain, both narrated by Willem Dafoe. He has collaborated with artists including Olafur Eliasson and Stanley Donwood, and with the artist Jackie Morris he co-created the internationally best-selling books of nature-poetry and art, The Lost Words and The Lost Spells. He is the recipient of the E. M. Forster Prize for Literature and the Henry David Thoreau Prize for Literary Excellence. Macfarlane lives in Cambridge, England, where he is a fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
