A beautiful gift for the intrepid explorer in your life by one of the most acclaimed and beloved nature writers working today, <\/b>the internationally bestselling, prize-winning author of Landmarks, The Lost Words <\/i>and The Old Ways<\/i><\/b>
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER<\/b><\/p>\n
WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2019<\/b>
WINNER OF THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2020<\/b><\/p>\n
‘You’d be crazy not to read this book’ The Sunday Times<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
A Guardian Best Book of the 21st Century<\/b><\/p>\n
In Underland<\/i>, 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.<\/p>\n
SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2020 <\/b>
‘Macfarlane has invented a new kind of book, really a new genre entirely’<\/b> The Irish Times<\/i><\/p>\n
‘He is the great nature writer, and nature poet, of this generation’<\/b> Wall Street Journal<\/i> <\/p>\n
‘Macfarlane has shown how utterly beautiful a brilliantly written travel book can still be<\/b>‘ Observer <\/i>on The Old Ways<\/i><\/p>\n
‘Irradiated by a profound sense of wonder<\/b>… Few books give such a sense of enchantment; it is a book to give to many, and to return to repeatedly’ Independent <\/i>on Landmarks<\/i><\/p>\n
‘It sets the imagination tingling<\/b>…like reading a prose Odyssey sprinkled with imagist poems’ The<\/i> Sunday Times <\/i>on The Old Ways<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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