Underland
- Author Robert Macfarlane
- Narrator Roy McMillan
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Run Time 13 hours and 2 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Biography and non-fiction prose, Conservation of wildlife and habitats, Earth sciences, Geology, geomorphology and the lithosphere, Literary essays, Popular science, Rocks, minerals and fossils: general interest, Science: general issues, The Earth: natural history: general interest, The environment, Travel and holiday, Travel writing.
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What to expect
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
Critics Review
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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
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