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Underland
  • ISBN: 9780141030579
  • Pages: 496
  • Publisher: Penguin
  • Binding: Paperback

Underland

A Deep Time Journey

Robert Macfarlane
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Winner of the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing 2019

In 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.

‘Startling and memorable, 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’ New Statesman



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