Underland A Deep Time Journey

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 Our Booksellers Say... "This is an excellent, beautifully written book. I must read more Macfarlane! He takes us underground - all over the world. Into caves in the Mendips and Bowlby to forests with the author Merlin Sheldrake to the sewers in Paris and glaciers in Scandinavia. He brings the underworld to life!" Becky R., Bookseller (Broad Street) View all of Becky R.'s recommendations

ISBN:	9780141030579
Publisher:	Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:	Penguin Books
Published date:	27 Aug 2020
DEWEY:	304.2
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Sales rank:	9384
Number of pages:	viii, 487
Weight:	404g
Height:	129mm
Width:	195mm
Spine width:	38mm

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