Underland

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 writt…