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Underland
- A Deep Time Journey
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
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Summary
Brought to you by Penguin.
Shortlisted for the Best Nonfiction Audiobook at the New York Festival Radio Awards 2020.
A Sunday Times bestseller
Winner of the Wainwright Prize 2019
Winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of The Year Award 2020
A Guardian Best Book of the 21st Century
From the internationally bestselling, prize-winning author of Landmarks, The Lost Words and The Old Ways
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. 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
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"He is the great nature writer, and nature poet, of this generation." (Wall Street Journal)
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- Sararara
- 13-05-19
Epic. Sobering. Wonderful.
I feel quite exhausted, as if i had joined the author in his (insane) journeys across glaciers, out to remote icy islands, then down into catacombs and other terrifying constricted spaces deep in the earth.
Despite covering some seriously heavy material on microbiology, geology and nuclear physics (and lots more besides), his eloquent writing style makes you feel as if you know what’s going on.
I kept a notepad to hand to google things later, altho spellings can be tricky.
It’s a fascinating book, with faultless narration, but one to take slowly as it’s quite intense.
And it’s not just about the natural world but takes in history, art, politics and poetry.
The author is erudite and astute but has a lightness of touch with some laugh-out-loud descriptions of places and people.
Amazing book which I shall dip in to again.
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- MR M N Jones
- 31-05-19
Exceptional
Gripping, fascinating and wholly absorbing. The easiest listen yet, highly recommended and deeply thought provoking, not to mention claustrophobia inducing.
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- Mr. Jr Baker
- 16-09-19
Poetic and lyrical, maybe too much so
Beautifully written but I was expecting something more scientific and factual. Very well read but my attention wondered regularly.
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- Orchak
- 18-06-19
Excellent
A truly outstanding work combining beautiful prose with science, folk-lore, history and anthropology. I strongly recommend this book.
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- Heidi
- 01-02-20
Beautifiul, unsettling, essential.
The best non fiction book I've ever read. Every human should read this book to understand our place in the world.
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- A. Jones
- 14-06-19
Thought provoking and powerful
I loved this book and feel like I need to start again to really take it in as it as densely packed with treasures and the earth it praises.
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- Mo
- 03-09-19
Beautiful.
Uterly captivating will listen to this over and over again, and added more places i wish to go.
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- John Dalek
- 09-11-20
Not bad...
Some interesting thoughts and ideas, but goes on a bit and the language is somewhat flowery; occasionally a tad pretentious and pompous.
Also, the narrator enunciates like Alan Partridge, once that thought is in your head it's impossible to take the book seriously.
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- Bill
- 27-01-20
A wonderful tour of another world beneath us
Beautifully written and so wonderfully descriptive I could imagine myself in so many of the places (strange given I would never have normally considered to explore such places) and now I cannot wait to go and explore them in person. A truly / listen great read for any lover of the outdoors even if they have never been one for exploring the Underland, caves or any subterranean network.
Most enjoyable from start to finish.
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- Laura
- 06-11-19
Educational and enlightening
Really enjoyed this book, the concept grew as the book progressed, digging deeper with each chapter, and it helped me learn and think a lot along the way. I found myself constantly looking for pictures or articles about the places and people mentioned, and feel much more well-versed having read it. The latter 3rd of the book dragged a little, if I'm honest, the section about the Scandinavian cold and glaciers didn't quite grip me as much as the previous ones, but it was all tied up nicely in the last few chapters. A great book, mind expanding and sobering. An easy entertaining listen too, well read, atmospheric and intriguing. McFarlane writes with a poetic quality that elevates this book to more than you'd expect.
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