Underland
A Deep Time Journey
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About this listen
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
'You'd be crazy not to read this book' The Sunday Times
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
'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
© Robert Macfarlane 2019 (P) Penguin Audio 2019
Critic reviews
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.
Epic. Sobering. Wonderful.
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Beautiful.
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strong second half
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Robert Macfarlane takes the reader on a rollercoaster ride of information, ideas and underground landscapes that are totally unique on this planet, covering subjects that are as diverse as climate change, history of art, geopolitics, archaeology, caving, geology, history, physical geography,social history, astronomy, nuclear physics, architecture, microbiology and botany. The writing is sublime and the narration is excellent, though the pronunciation of some of the technical terms was a little suspect at times.
A fantastic book and I am looking forward to reading more of this author's work. He has a tremendous ability to write of nature's ability to astound and inspire. I'd give it more than ten out of ten if I could.
Stunning. Nature writing at its very best.
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A brilliant book, beautifully read.
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