The Sunday Times bestselling tour-de-force from the author of The Lost Words and The Old Ways - an unmissable journey into the hidden worlds beneath our feet.
Robert Macfarlane is the author of Mountains of the Mind, The Wild Places, The Old Ways, Landmarks, and The Lost Words, co-created with Jackie Morris. 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. He 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.
a brilliant, thrilling, terrifying work of literature, making me
want to think more adventurously and live more deeply. * Amy
Liptrot *
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 * Evening
Standard *
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 -- 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
toward a deliberate, loving, and luminous sense of awe --
Lauren Groff
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 -- Philip Pullman
The great nature writer, and nature poet, of this generation
* Wall Street Journal *
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 --
Rebecca Solnit
An epic descent into a series of underground and underwater
landscapes * Financial Times *
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 -- Diane Ackerman
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 * The Oldie
*
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 -- Philip Gourevitch
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 -- Francisco
Cantu
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 -- Benedict Allen
Eye-opening, lyrical and moving...capturing
the poetry beneath the science. * Publisher's Weekly *
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 * New
Statesman *
You'd be crazy not to read this book * The Sunday Times
*
Marvellous... Neverending curiosity, generosity of spirit,
erudition, bravery and clarity... This is a book well worth reading
* The Times *
Extraordinary... at once learned and readable, thrilling and
beautifully written * Observer *
|
Ask a Question About this Product More... |
|
