UNDERLAND : A DEEP TIME JOURNEY – ROBERT MACFARLANE

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 Ways 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 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